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CITY  OF  JOLIET, 

ILLINOIS. 


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Together  with  Acts  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the 
State  of  Illinois,  Relating  to  the  City, 


REVISED  AND  ARRANGED  BY  ROBERT  T.  KELLY. 


Published  by  Authority  of  the  City  Council. 

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JOLIET. 

NEWS  STEAM  PRINTING  HOUSE. 

1884. 


V 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


CITY  CHARTER. 


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C' 

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J,  Of  the  organization  of  cities,  - 

II.  Of  the  Mayor, 

III.  Of  the  City  Council, 

IV.  PHections, 

V.  Of  the  powers  of  the  City  Council, 

VI.  Officers— their  powers  of  duties, 

VII.  Of  p'inance,  . . - - 

General  Provisions, 

VIII.  Of  the  assessment  and  collection  of  taxes, 

IX.  Special  assessments  for  hxad  imi)rovements. 
Special  assessments, 

X.  Miscellaneous  provisions-water, 


1-7^ 

7-10 

10-14 

14-20 

20-35 

- 35-42 
42-50 

- 50-52 
52-54 
54-01 

- 01-77 
77-80  / 


STATUTES, 


Actions  to  recover  fines  and  penalties , - 81 

Elections,  - - - 81 

Ferries  and  bridges,  - - 82 

Houses  of  ill-fame,  -*  - - 82 

Labor  on  streets,  83 

Leasing  landings  and  levees,  - 84 

Libraries,  ^ ^ 85-89 

Offices  of  cities,  - - 89-91 

Oil  inspection,  - - 91-94 

Police  magistrate,  ^ - 94-95 

Public  buildings,  - - 95-9G 

. Punishment  of  persons  violating  ordinances,  * 96-97 

Roads  and  bridges,  - - 97-98 

Salaries  of  city  officers,  - - 98-99 

Sidewalks,  - - _ • 99-104 

Sewerage,  - ■*  , " 104-105 

Sewerage,  water  and  light  taxes,  - - 105-107 

Taxes,  . - . 108 

Sur])lus  fund  of  tax,  - - 108 

Re)>ate  and  reduction  of  taxes,  etc,  - 109-110 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


Aiiiiexiiig  and  excluding  territory,  - 111- 

Issuing  warrants  on  county  treasurer,  etc, 

Water  works,  - - - - 114- 

Operating  water  works,  - - 120- 

Vacation  of  streets,  alleys  and  highways, 

Brido-es,  - -*  . *122- 

City  boundaries,  ^ _ 

Schools,  ^ - 125- 


ORDINANCES, 


I.  Animals,  pound  and  pound-keepers, 

II.  Arrests, 

III.  xiuctions  and  auctioneers, 

IV.  Billiard,  pool  and  bagatelle  tables,  etc, 

V.  Bridges,  ..  . . 

VI.  . Bridewell,  - - 

VII  Buildings, 

VIII.  City  attorne}^ 

IX.  Corporation  counsel, 

X.  City  clerk, 

XI.  City  collector, 

XII.  City  treasurer, 

XIII.  Corporate  seal, 

XIV.  City  surveyor, 

XV.  City  council. 


-113 

113 

-120^ 

-121-' 

121 

-124 

125 

-130 


131 

135 

138 

140 

141 
143 
146 

148 

149 
151 
153 

156 

157 

158 
161 


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TABLE  or  CONTENTS. 


XVI.  City  warrants,  - - 167 

XVII.  Dogs,  - - - 169 

XVIII.  Election — contest  of,  - 172 

XIX.  Fees,  - - - 175 

XX.  Eire  department,  - - 176 

XXL  • Fire  limits,  - - - 182 

XXII.  Fiscal  year,  - - 188 

XXIII.  Gunpowder,  - - - 188 

XXIV.  Health,  - - - . 16« 

XXV.  Intoxicating  liquors,  - - 200 

XXVI.  Licenses,  - - 205 

XXVII.  Markets,  - - - - 206 

XXVIII.  Misdemeanors,  - - 209 

XXIX.  Nuisances,  - - ” 225 

XXX.  Offices,  - - - 230 

XXXI.  Oil,  - - - - 232 

XXXII.  Oil  inspector,  - - 234 

XXXIII.  Pawnbrokers,  - - - 236 

XXXIV.  Peddlers,  - - 237 

XXXV.  Police  department,  - - 239 

XXXVI.  Police  magistrate,  - - ’ 243 

XXXVII.  Porters  and  runners,  - - 119 

XXXVIII.  Public  library,  - - 252 

XXXIX.  Railroads,  - - - 253 

XL.  Scavengers,  - - 259 

, XLI.  Schools,  - - 264 

' XLII.  Shows  and  exhibitions,  - - 271 

XLIII.  Shooting  galleries,  - - 272 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


Vll 


XLIY.  ^Sidewalks,  _ _ _ 273 

XLV.  Streets  and  superintendent  of  streets,  27(i 

XLVI.  Supplies  and  cdaims,  - - 287 

XLVII.  Trees,  - - - 289 

XLVIII.  Vehicles,  - - 290 

XLIX.  Vagrants,  . - _ 296 

L.  Wards,  - - 299 

LI.  W eights  and  measures,  - - 301 

LII.  Wood  and  hay,  - - - 304 

LI  II.  Ordi  nances,  - - - 306 

Adopting  and  publishing  ordinance,  * 308 

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PREFACE. 

Juliet  was  incorporated,  by  an  act  of  the  Legislature,  as 
a village  in  the  year  18J7,  and  was  governed  by  a president 
and  board  of  trustees,  till  1841,  when  by  an  act  of  the  Leg- 
islature the  village  charter  was  repealed  and  the  trustees 
resigned,  leaving  “Juliet”  without  an  organization  till 
June  19,  1852,  at  which  time  the  city  of  Joliet,  was  incor- 
porated by  an  act  of  the  Legislature,  the  act  of  incorpora- 
tion was  approved  by  the  electors  July  5,  1852,  by  a vote 
of  2(>8  for,  133  against. 

The  lirst  set  of  ordinances  for  the  government  of  the 
city  were  adopted  August  20,  1852. 

In  the  year  1857,  a new  charter  for  the  city  of  Joliet  was 
passed  by  the  State  Legislature,  which  remained  in  force 
(with  some  minor  amendments)  until  August  5,  1876,  at 
wdiich  time  by  a vote  of  the  city  the  general  “Act  to  pro- 
vide for  the  incorporation  of  cities  and  villages,  approved 
April  10,  1872, and  in  force  July  1,  1872,”  was  adopted  by  a 
vote  ot  1076  for,  to  307  against.. 

The  charter  for  1857,  and  ordinances  were  published  in 
book  form  in  the  year  1863,  and  was  again  published  in 
the  year  1869. 

On  the  27th  of  April,  1877,  the  general  incorporation  act 
adopted  August  5,  1876,  together  with  a revision  of  the 
ordinances  was  published  in  book  form.  Tn  the  present 


PREFACE. 


IX 


publication  the  general  incoporation  Statutes,  together 
with  acts  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State,  relating  to 
the  city  and  all  general  ordinances  now  in  force,  special 
ordinances  (not  repealed)  being  still  in  force,  but  not  pub- 
lished in  the  revision. 

This  volume  is  respectfully  submitted  to  the  City  Coun- 
cil and  public.  Hoping  that  herein  will  be  found  a correct 
and  reliable  compilation  of  the  municipal  laws  and  regula- 
tions of  our  city  to  the  present  time. 

Joliet,  April,  1884. 


JULIET  VILLAGE  OFFICERS 


FROM  1837  TO  1841, 


TRUSTEES. 

1837.  Joel  A.  Matteson,  President;  J.  J.  Garland,  Dan- 
iel Reed,  David  L.  Roberts,*  Fenner  Aldrich,  Robert  C. 
Duncan. 

1838.  Amos  Fellows,  President;  Bennet  Allen,  G.  H. 
Woodruff,  J.  C.  Newkerk,  W.  A.  Boardman. 

1839.  William  Schofield,  President;  Chas.  Clement, 
W.  A.  Chatfield,  George  Woodruff , F.  Mitchell. 

1840.  Joel  George,  President ; John  L.  Wilson,  W.  A. 
Chatfield,  James  Brodie,*  Chas.  Sayre,  Richard  Doolittle. 


By  an  act  of  the  Legislature,  the  act  organizing  the 
Village  of  Juliet  was  repealed;  the  Trustees,  thereupon,  on 
the  3d  day  of  March,  A.  D.  1841,  resigned  their  respective 
offices,  from  which  time, 'until  the  City  of  Joliet  was  in- 
corporated by  act  of  the  Legislature,  June  19,  A.  D. 
1852,  there  was  no  organization. 

*Elected  to  fill  vacancy. 


JOLIET  CITY  GOVERNMENT 


From  Incorporation  in  1852  to  the  Year  1884, 


1852. 

C.  C.  Van  Horn,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — M.  H.  Cutter,  David  Casseday. 
Second  ward — Jacob  Gorges,  Michael  Shields. 
1'hird  ward — Edward  AVilcox,  Thomas  J.  Kinney. 
Fourth  ward — F.  L.  Cagwin,  S.  N.  Bowen. 

Fifth  ward — P.  O’Connor,  Uri  Osgood. 

S.  AV.  Stone,  Clerk. 

AV.  A.  Strong,  Treasurer. 


1853. 

C.  C.  Van  Horn,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — N.  H.  Cutter,  Benj.  Richardson. 
Second  ward — Patrick  Hart,  Simon  Houser. 
Third  ward — Edmund  AVilcox,  Firman  Mack. 
Fourth  ward — F.  L.  Cagwin,  S.  AV.  Bowen. 
Fifth  ward — P.  O’Connor,  Uri.  Osgood. 

S.  AA".  Stone,  Clerk. 

AV.  A.  Strong,  Treasurer. 


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JOLIET  CITY  GOVERNIVIENT. 


1854. 

J.  E.  Streeter,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — Benj.  Kichardson,  "^Thos.  B.  Jones;  jC.  E. 
Munofer. 

Second  ward — Patrick  Hart,  Simon  Houser. 

Third  ward — Edmund  Wilcox,  Firman  Mack. 

Fourth  ward — F.  L.  Cagwin,  S.  W.  Bowen. 

Fifth  ward — Patrick  O’Connor,  O.  W.  Stillman. 

S.  W.  Stone,  Clerk. 

W.  A.  Strong,  Treasurer. 


1855. 

N.  D.  Elwood,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — N.  H.  Cutter,  C.  E.  Munger. 

Second  ward — Patrick  Hart,  Simon  Houser. 

Third  ward — Firman  Mack,  T.  R.  Hunter. 

Fourth  ward— F.  L.  Cagwin,  Geo.  Woodrufi*. 

Fifth  ward — O.  W.  Stillman,  George  Snoad. 

Sixth  ward — Wm.  Adam,  "^E.  T.  Durand,  f Timothy 
Kelly. 

S.  W.  Stone,  Clerk. 

Charles  Snoad,  Collector. 

W.  A.  Strong,  Treasurer. 


1856. 

N.  D.  Elwood,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — N.  H.  Cutter,  J.  C.  Williams. 
Second  ward — Patrick  Hart,  Simon  Houser. 
Third  ward — T.  R.  Hunter,  F.  K.  Bailey. 
^Resigned — fTo  fill  vacancy. 


JOLIET  CITY  GOVERNMENT. 


XIII 


Fourth  ward — Geo.  Woodruft\  J.  McRoberts. 
Fifth  ward— Geo.  Snoad,R.  E.  Goodell. 
Sixth  ward — Wm.  Adams,  Charles  E.  Ward. 
^Charles  Snoad,  Clerk. 

TH.  Logan,  Clerk. 

Peter  Filer,  Collector. 

O.  W.  Stillman,  Treasurer. 


1857. 

Firman  Mack,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  Ward — J.  C.  AYilliams,  A.  Amsden. 

Second  ward — Patrick  Hart,  John  Belz. 

Third  ward— F.  K.  Bailey,  MTn.  Smith. 

Fourth  ward — X.  D.  El  wood,  *J.  McRoberts,  tGeo. 
W oodrulf . 

Fifth  ward — R.  E.  Goodell,  John  Flack. 

Sixth  ward — V.  Drosler,  C.  E.  AVard. 

S.  S.  Bulfum,  Clerk. 

E.  M.  Bray^  Collector. 

Edmund  Wilcox,  Treasurer. 


1858. 

Firman  Mack,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward— Albert  Amsden,  R.  S.  Johnson, 
Second  ward— Patrick  Hart,  John  Belz. 
Third  ward— M^m.  Smith,  H.  B.  Godard, 
b ourth  ward — N.  D.  Elwood,  E.  C.  Fellows. 
^Resigned— tTo  fill  vacancy 


X!V 


JOLIKT  CITY  GOVEKN31ENT. 


Fifth  ward — R.  E.  Goodell,  John  J.  Flack. 
Sixth  ward — V.  Drosler,  E.  L.  Booth. 

S.  ().  Buflfum,  City  Clerk. 

E.  M.  Bray,  Collector. 
Edmund  Wilcox,  Treasurer. 


18o9. 

Frank  Goodspeed,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — R.  S.  Johnson,  H.  D.  Higinbotham. 
Second  ward — Patrick  Hart,  John  Gorges. 

Third  ward — H.  B.  Godard,  F.  A.  Barthleson. 
Fourth  ward — N.  D.  Elwood,  E.  C.  Fellows. 
Fifth  ward — R.  E.  Goodell,  J.  J.  Flack. 

Sixth  ward — E.  L.  Booth,  P.  O’Connor. 

Samuel  D.  Smith,  C ty  Cler\. 

John  Weber,  Collector. 

Edmund  Wilcox,  Treasurer. 


1860. 

Frank  Goodspeed,  Mayor. 

ALDEHMEN. 

First  ward — ^^H.  D.  Higinbotham,  H.  Howk. 
Second  ward — Patrick  Hart,  John  Gorges, 
d'hird  ward — F.  A.  Bartleson,  W.  A.  Strong,  Jr. 
Fourth  ward — N.  D.  Elwood,  Giles  Heath. 

Fifth  ward — J.  J.  Flack,  John  Scheldt. 

Sixth  ward — P.  O’Connor,  W.  B.  Caswell. 
Samuel  D.  Smith,  Clerk. 

A.  Houghteling,  Collector. 

Thomas  Hatton,  Jr.,  Treasurer. 


JOLIET  CITY  GOVERNMENT. 


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1 1861. 

^5herman  W.  Bowen,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — H.  Howk,  William  Werner. 
Second  ward — Patrick  Hart,  John  Theiler. 
Third  ^vard — William  A.  Strong,  J.  A.  Scheidt. 
Fourth  ward — Giles  Heath,  M.  L.  Cook. 

Fifth  ward — R.  E.  Goodell,  John  Scheidt. 

Sixth  w’ard — W.  B.  Caswell,  Edwin  Porter. 
Samuel  D.  Smith,  Clerk. 

M.  Sebastian,  Collector. 

Benjamin  Richardson,  Treasurer. 


1862. 

S.  W.  Bowen,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — Wm.  Werner,  R.  Doolittle. 
Second  ward — John  Theiler,  Patrick  Galvin. 
Third  ward — W.  A.  Strong,  Jr.,  A Scheid. 
Fourth  ward — Giles  Heath,  M.  L.  Cook, 

Fifth  ward — R.  E,  Goodell,  John  Leo. 

Sixth  ward — W.  B.  Caswell,  Edwin  Porter. 
Samuel  D.  Smith,  Clerk. 

James  O’Reilly,  Collector. 

Abijah  Cagwin,  Treasurer. 

1863. 

W.  A.  Strong,  Jr.,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — R.  Doolittle,  H.  D.  Higinbotham. 
Second  ward — P.  Galvin,  H.  Herschback. 
Third  ward — F.  Pa  sold,  T.  R.  Hunter. 

Fourth  ward — F.  L.  Cagwin,  C.  A.  Austin. 


XVI 


JOLIET  CITY  GOVERNMENT. 


Fifth  ward — John  Leo,  S.  K.  Casey. 
k!>ixth  ward — Edwin  Porter,  W.  B.  Caswell. 
W.  H.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

I.  T.  Millspaugh,  Collector. 

Abijah  Cag-win,  Treasurer. 


1864. 

Edwin  Porter,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — R.  Doolittle,  H.  D.  Higginbotham. 
Second  ward — Anthony  Scheldt,  H.  Herschbach. 

Third  ward — T.  R.  Hunter,  M.  A.  Ulrich. 

Fourth  ward — F.  L,  Cagwin,  C.  A.  Austin. 

Fifth  ward — S.  K.  Casey,'*'  John  Chidsey,t  Michael 
Clabby. 

Sixth  ward — W.  B.  Caswell,  N.  D.  Tighe. 

W.  H.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

John  Lennon,  Collector. 

Abijah  Cagwin,  Treasurer. 


1865. 

Edwin  Porter,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — R.  Doolittle,  T.  L.  Breckenridge. 
Second  ward — Anthony  Scheldt,  M.  Moran. 
Third  ward — M.  A.  Ulrich,  W.  F.  Barrett. 
Fourth  ward — C.  A.  Austin,  W.  S.  Brooks. 
*Resiy:ned — ffo  fill  vacancy 


JOLIET  CITY  GOVERNMENT, 


XVII 


Fifth  ward — M.  Clabby,  S.  W.  Bowen. 
Sixth  ward — N.  D.  Tighe,  Thos  Keegan. 
W.  H.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

Win.  Stapleton,  Collector. 
Wm.  Smith,  Treasurer. 


* 1866. 

S.  W.  Bowen,  Mayor, 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — T.  L.  Breckenridge,  William  Werner. 
Second  ward — Anthony  Scheidt,  M.  Moran. 

Third  ward — W.  F.  Barrett,  O.  H.  Woodruft'. 
F'ourth  ward — Geo.  Miinroe,  Elvis  Harwood. 

Fifth  ward — M.  Clabby,  John  Koney. 

Sixth  ward — N.  D.  Tighe,  Thos.  Keegan. 

W.  H.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

David  F.  Ward,  Collector. 

Abijah  Cagwin,  Treasurer. 


1867. 

Elvis  Harwood,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — H.  Howk,  Wm.  Werner. 
Second  ward — A.  Scheidt,  M.  Moran. 

Third  ward— O.  H.  Woodruff,  F.  Pasold. 
Fourth  ward — Chas.  Clement,  M.  C.  Bissell. 
Fifth  ward — John  Roney,  W.  H.  Carlin. 
Sixth  ward — Eugene  Daly,  N.  D.  Tighe. 

W.  H.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

C.  W.  Staehle,  Collector. 

M.  Clabby,  Treasurer. 


XVIII 


JOLIET  CITY  GOVERNMENT. 


1868. 

Elvis  Harwood,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN, 

First  ward — H,  Howk,  Calvin  Know  I ton. 

Second  ward — ^A.  Seheidt,  Thos.  Moran. 

Third  ward — F.  Pasold,  H.  Strickland. 

Fourth  ward— “Chas.  Clement,  M.  C.^-BisselL 
Fifth  ward — W.  H.  Carlin,  John  Roney. 

Sixth  ward — Eugene  Daly,  P.  O’Connor. 

W.  H.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

Michael  Moran,  Collector. 

John  Lennon,  Treasurer. 

1869. 

W . A.  Steel,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — Calvin  KnoAvlton,  Win.  E.  Henry. 
Second  Avard — A.  Scheldt,  M.  Moran. 

Third  A\"ard — John  Stock,  H.  Strickland. 

Fourth  ward — ^Chas  Clement,  W.  S.  Brooks. 
Fifth  ward — John  Roney,  M.  Lennon. 

Sixth  ward — P.  O’Connor,  N.  D.  Tighe. 

‘ W.  II.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

F.  Pasold,  Collector. 

M.  A.  Ulrich,  Treasurer. 


1870. 

\V.  A.  Steel,  iVIayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  Avard — Wm.  E.  Henry,  T.  L.  Breckenridge. 
Second  ward — M.  Moran,  Jos.  Bartholme. 


JOLIET  CITY  GOVERNMENT. 


XIX 


Third  ward — Edmund  V^'ilcox,  elohii  Stock. 
Fourth  ward — Chas  Clement,  \\".  S.  Brooks. 
Fifth  ward — M.  Lennon,  Jacob  Adler. 

Sixth  ward — John  'Theiler,  Robert  Walsh. 
W.  H.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

Chas.  P,  Beebe,  Collector, 

W.  D.  Fay,  Treasurer. 


1S71, 

Edwin  Porter,  Mayor, 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — Wm.  E.  Henry,  T.  L,  Breckenridge, 
Second  ward — J.  Bartholme,  Jacob  Houser. 

T'hird  ward — Edmund  VV'ilcox,  SamT.  D.  Smith. 
Fourth  ward — Chas  Clement,  F.  Layfield. 

Fifth  ward — Jacob  Adler,  W . E.  Spears. 

Sixth  ward — R.  VVTdsh^  John  D’Arcey. 

W,  H.  Zarley,  Clerk,  ‘ 

Dennis  Mullens,  Collector.  / 

W.  D.  Fay,  Treasurer. 


1872. 

W.  A.  Steel,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — AVm.  E.  Henry,  eJas.  (L  El  wood. 
Second  ward — A.  Scheldt,  Jacob  Houser. 
Third  ward — S.  D.  Smith,  W.  F.  Barrett, 
Fourth  ward— F.  Laytield,  John  R.  ('asey. 


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JOLIET  CITY  GOYERN3IENT. 


Fifth  ward — Jacob  Adler,  W.  E.  Spears. 
Sixth  ward — R.  Walsh,  John  D’Arcey. 
W.  H.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

Ignats  Weisharr,  Collector, 
M,  Lennon,  Treasurer. 


1873. 

Win.  E.  Henry,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — Jas.  G,  El  wood,  L.  E.  Dill  in  an. 
Second  ward — A.  Scheldt,  M.  Moran. 

Third  ward — W.  F.  Barrett,  Chas.  Wunderlich. 
Fourth  ward — J.  R.  Casey,  F.  Layfield. 

Fifth  ward — J.  Adler,  Jas.  P.  Murphy. 

Sixth  ward — R.  Walsh,  Chas.  E.  Ward. 

W.  H.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

O.  H.  Woodrulf,  Collector. 

M.  Lennon,  Treasurer. 


1874. 

Anthony  Scheldt,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — L.  E.  Dillman,  J.  M.  Browne, 
Second  ward — M.  Moran,  Fred  Sehring. 
Third  ward — C.  Wunderlich,  E.  W.  Crandall. 
Fourth  ward — F.  Laylield,  Henry  Young. 
Fifth  ward — J.  P.  Murphy,  J.  I.  Mather. 
Sixth  ward — C.  E.  Ward,  ().  Hicks. 

W.  H.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

Mathew  Tuohy,  Collector. 

M.  Lennon,  Treasurer. 


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1875. 

W.  A.  Steel,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — J.  M.  Browne,  A.  Flack. 
Second  ward — F.  Sehring,  Joseph  Stoos. 
Third  ward — C.  Wunderlich,  R.  Sandiford. 
Fourth  w^ard — H.  Young,  Dennis  McDonald. 
Fifth  ward — J.  P.  Murphy,  J.  I.  Mather. 
Sixth  ward — O.  Hicks,  Jos.  Davidson. 

W.  H.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

M.  A.  Ulrich,  Collector. 

John  Grorges,  Treasurer. 


1876. 

Royal  E.  Barber,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — M.  A.  Flack,  Dorrance  Dibell. 

Second  ward — F.  Sehring,  Jos.  Stoos. 

Third  ward — H.  N.  Marsh,  C.  Wunderlich. 

Fourth  w^ard — Dennis  McDonald,  Frank  Haviland. 
Fifth  ward — J.  P.  Murphy,  M.  Lennon. 

Sixth  ward — J.  Davidson,  J.  A.  Hanna. 

W.  H.  Zarley,  Clerk. 

James  Bowlan,  Collector. 

John  Gorges,  Treasurer. 

1877. 

James  G.  Elwmod.  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — M.  G.  Demmond,  Wm.  Evans,*  Thos.  H. 
Riley,  t 

^Resigned — fTo  fill  vacancy 


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JOLIET  CITY  GOVEKXMENT. 


Second  ward — F.  \V.  Woodruff,  Wm.  Gleason. 
Third  ward — F.  Sehring,  A.  Scheidt. 

Fcnirth  ward — T.  A.  .Mason,  Frank  Hoffman. 

Fifth  ward — J.  A.  Hanna,  Peter  Collins. 

« 

Sixth  ward — M.  Lennon,  H.  Fanning. 

Seventh  ward — Dorranee  Dibell,  J.  P.  King. 

W.  11.  Zarley,  Clerk.* 

Wm.  'ronner.  Clerk. f 
Chas.  Werner,  Collector. 

John  Gorges,  Treasurer. 

1S78. 

Jas,  G.  El  wood.  Mayor, 

# ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — M.  G.  Deminond,  Frank  E.  Freeman, 
Second  ward — F.  W.  Woodruff*,  Wm.  Gleason. 
Third  ward — F.  Sehring,  M.  Moran. 

Fourth  ward — T.  A.  '^hison,  11.  N.  Marsh. 

Fifth  ward — Peter  Collins,  P.  C.  Haley. 

Sixth  ward — 11.  Fanning,  11.  Schoettes. 

Seventh  ward — Dorranee  Dibell,  J.  P.  King. 

Wm.  Tonner,  Clerk. 

Chas.  AVerner,  Collector. 

John  Gorges,  d’reasurer. 


1S79. 

Edwin  Porter,  Mayor. 

ALDER3IEN. 

First  ward — F.  E.  ETeeman,  Chas.  Pettigrew. 
Second  ward — ¥.  W,  Woodruff’,  Dennis  ^IcDonald. 
Third  ward — M,  ]Moran,  ^lichael  Scheidt, 

■'^Resigned — fTo  fill  vacancy 


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Fourth  ward — H.  N.  Marsh,  E,  D.  Avery. 

Fifth  ward — P.  C.  Haley,  Jos.  Davidson, 

Sixth  ward — H.  Schoettes,  J.  C.  Murphy, 
Seventh  ward — Dorrance  Dibell,  11.  L.  Seward. 
Robert  T,  Kelly,  Clerk. 

A.  Cagwin,  Collector, 

John  Scheldt,  Treasurer. 


1880, 

Edwin  Porter,  Mayor, 

ALDEPJVIEN. 

First  ward — Chas.  Pettigrew,  Christopher  Smith. 
vSecond  ward — D.  McDonald,  Thos.  H.  Riley. 

Third  ward — M.  vScheidt,  M.  Moran. 

Fourth  ward— E.  D,  Avery.*  II.  W.  Cope,t  H.  N. 
Marsh, 

Fifth  ward — Jos.  Davidson,  P.  C.  Haley.  » 

Sixth  ward — J.  C,  Murphy  .J  elohn  Mason, t H.  Fanning 
Seveiith  ward — ^R.  L.  Seward,  11,  C.  Knowlton, 

R.T,  Kelly,  Clerk, 

elas,  G.  Patterson,  Collector. 

John  Scheldt,  Treasurer. 


1881. 

Edwin  Porter,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — C.  J.  Smith,  Jno  Gorman. 

Second  ward — Thos.  II.  Riley,  Edward  Lawler. 
Third  ward — M.  Moran,  Fred  Schring. 
’^Resign«d— tTo  fill  vac.-tiuy — fDied. 


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JOLIET  CITY  GOVERN3IENT. 


Fourth  ward — H.  N.  Marsh,  H.  W.Cope. 

Fifth  ward — P.  G,  Haley,  H.  A.  Smith. 

Sixth  ward — H.  Fanning,  J.  T,  Donahue. 
Seventh  ward — H.  C.  Knowlton,  R.  L.  Sevvard, 
Kobt.  T.  Kelly,  Clerk. 

Jas.  G,  Patterson,  Collector. 

Jos.  Stoos,  Treasurer. 


1882. 

Edwin  Porter,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — John  Gorman,  Wm.  Maloney. 
Second  ward — Edward  Lawler,  D.  McDonald. 
Third  ward — F.  Sehring,  M.  Moran. 

Fourth  ward — H.  W.  Cope,  E.  D.  Avery. 
Fifth  ward — H.  A.  Smith,  P.  C.  Haley. 

Sixth  ward — J.  T.  Donahue,  Peter  Hebert. 
Seventh  ward — K.  L.  Seward,  Jas.  Goodspeed. 
Robert  T,  Kelly,  Clerk. 

John  Ryan,  Collector. 

Jos.  Stoos,  Treasurer. 


1883. 

Thos.  J.  Kelly,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — M.  Maloney,  John  Gorman. 

Second  ward — D.  McDonald.*  Thos..  Riley ,t  Ed. 
Lawler. 

Third  ward — Fred  Sehring,*  John  Schuch,t  M.  Moran. 
Fourth  ward — E.  D.  Avery.J  Sebatian  Lagger,  Jr.,t 
H.  W.  Cope. 

^Resigned — |To  fill  vacancy — JDied. 


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Fifth  ward — P.  C.  Haley,  Peter  Collins. 

Sixth  ward — Peter  Hebert,  John  T.  Donahue. 
Seveiith  ward — Jjimes  Goodspeed,  A.  F.  Knox. 
P.  T,  Kelly,  Clerk. 

John  ^1.  Swiggert,  Collector. 
John  Gorg'es,  Treasurer. 


1884. 

Thos.  J.  Kelly,  Mayor. 

ALDERMEN. 

First  ward — flohn  Gorman,  C.  J.  Smith. 

Second  ward — Edward  Lawler,  T.  H.  Piley. 

Third  ward — John  Sehuch,  M.  Moran. 

Fourth  ward — H,  W . Cope,  Sebastian  Lagger,  Jr. 
Fifth  ward — Peter  Collins,  P.  C.  Haley. 

Sixth  Avard — J.  T,  Donahue,  James  Egan. 

Seventh  ward — A.  F.  Knox,  Dan’l.  E.  Winters. 
Robert  T.  Kelly,  Clerk. 

John  Ryan,  Collector. 

John  Gorges,  Treasurer, 


CITY  CHARTER 


AN  ACT  to  provide  for  the  incorporation  of  Cities  and  Villages.  [Approved 
April  10,  1872.  In  force  July  1,  1872.  L.  1871-2,  p.  218.  With  the 
several  amendments  thereto.] 


Adopted  BY  the  City  of  Joliet,  August  5, 1876, 


Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  people  of  the  State  of  Illi- 
nois^ represented  in  the  General  Assemhly^  as  follows: 

ARTICLE  I. 

OF  THE  ORGANIZATION  OF  CITIES. 

1.  How  City  may  Adopt  this  Act. 

That  any  city  now  existing  in  this  state  may  become  incor- 
porated under  this  act  in  manner  following:  Whenever 

one-eighth  of  the  legal  voters  of  such  city, voting  at  the  last 
[ireceding  municipal  election,  shall  petition  the  mayor  and 
council  thereof  to  submit  the  question  as  to  whether  such 
city  shall  become  incorporated  under  this  act,  to  a vote  of 
the  electors  in  such  city,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  mayor 
and  council  to  submit  such  question  at  the  next  municipal 
(dection  of  such  city;  or  on  the  third  Tuesday  in  Ajiril,  as 
provided  for  in  article  four  (4)  of  said  act  for  holding 


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cm^  OF  JOLIET. 


municipal  elections.  Provided^  There  shall  be  sufficient 
time  intervening  to  give  the  notice  required  by  law.  [As 
amended  by  act  approved  and  in  force  Feb.  26,  1881.  L. 
1881,  p.  58.] 

2.  Notice  op  Election. 

§ 2.  The  mayor  of  such  city  shall  give  at  least  thirty 
days’  notice  of  such  election,  by  publishing  a notice  thereof 
in  one  or  more  newspapers  within  such  city,  but  if  no  news- 
paper is  published  therein,  then  by  posting  at  least  five 
copies  of  such  notice  in  each  ward. 

8.  The  Ballot — Bestu  t. 

§ 3.  The  ballots  to  be  used  at  such  election  shall  be 
in  the  folio wiim  form:  “For  citv  orsfanizntion  under 

general  law;”  or,  “ Against  city  organization  under  gen- 
eral law.”  The  judges  of  such  election  shall  make  returns 
thereof  to  the  city  council,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
canvass  such  returns  and  cause  the  result  of  such  canvass 
to  be  entered  on  the  records  of  such  city.  If  a majority 
of  the  votes  cast  at  such  election  shall  be  for  city  organ- 
ization under  the  general  law,  such  city  shall  thence- 
forth be  deemed  to  be  organized  under  this  act;  and 
the  city  officers  then  in  office  shall,  thereupon,  exercise  the 
powers  conferred  upon  like  officers  in  this  act,  until  their 
successors  shall  be  elected  and  qualified. 

4.  How  Towns  may  Become  Cities. 

§ 4.  Any  incorporated  town  or  village,  in  this  state, 
having  a population  of  not  less  than  one  thousand  (1,000) 
inhabitants,  may  become  incorporated  as  a city  in  like 
manner  as  hereinbefore  provided ; but  in  all  such  cases  the 
|)resident  and  trustees  of  such  town  or  village  shall,  re- 
spectivel}s  perform  the  same  duties  relative  to  such  change 
of  organization  as  is  above  required  to  be  performed  by  the 


cm'  CHAKTEK. 


mayor  and  council  of  cities.  [As  amended  by  act  approved 
May  25tli,  1877.  In  force  July  1st,  1877.  L.  1877,  p.  54.] 

o.  Okganizing  a City — Petition— Election — Result. 

§ 5.  Whenever  any  area  of  contiguous  territory  in  this 
state,  not  exceeding  four  square  miles,  shall  have  resident 
thereon  a population  of  not  less  than  one  thousand  inhabit- 
ants, which  shall  not  already  be  included  within  any  incor- 
porated town  or  city,  the  same  may  become  incorporated  as 
a city  in  manner  following : Any  fifty  legal  voters  thereof 

may  file  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  county  court,  of  the 
county  in  Avhich  such  inhabitants  reside,  a petition,  ad- 
dressed to  tlie  judge  of  such  court;  and  if  the  territory 
described  in  said  petition  shall  be  in  more  than  one  county, 
then  the  petition  shall  be  addressed  to  the  judge  of  tin* 
<*ourt  where  a greater  part  of  such  territory  is  situated: 
which  petition  shall  define  the  boundaries  of  such  proposed 
city,  and  state  the  number  of  inhabitants  residing  within 
such  limits,  and  also  state  the  name  of  such  })roi)osed  city, 
and  shall  contain  a prayer  that  the  ipiestion  be  submitted 
to  the  legal  voters  residing  withiji  such  limits,  whether 
they  will  organize  as  a city  under  this  act.  It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  county  judge  to  fix  a time  and  iilace  within  the 
Iioundaries  of  such  proposed  city,  at  which  an  election  may 
be  held  to  determine  such  question ; and  such  judge  shall 
name  the  persons  to  act  as  judges  in  holding  such  eleidion, 
and  shall  <rive  notice  thereof  bv  causiim  ten  notices  to  b(‘ 
])osted  in  jiublic  places  witliin  such  )>i-oposed  city.  And 
the  third  section  of  this  article  shall  be  applicable  to  such 
election:  /^rovu/ed,  thnt  returns  of  such  election  shall  be 

made  to  and  canvassed  by  the  county  judge  and  any  two 
justices  of  the  peace  whom  he  shall  call  to  his  assistance, 
ijistead  of  the  city  council;  and  the  result  of  su(*h  eleedion 


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shall  be  entered  upon  the  records  of  such  county  court.  If 
a majority  of  the  votes  cast  at  such  election  shall  be  “For 
city  org-auizatiou  under  general  law,”  the  inhabitants  of 
such  territory,  described  in  such  petition,  shall  be  deemed 
to  be  incorporated  as  a city,  under  this  act,  and  with  the 
name  stated  in  the  petition.  [See  § 17(i.j 

0.  Courts  to  take  Judicial  Notice.of  Organization,  Etc. 

§ 6.  All  courts  in  this  state  shall  take  judicial  notice  of 
the  existence  of  all  villages  and  cities  organized  under  this 
act;  and  of  the  change  of  the  organization  of  any  town  or 
city  from  its  original  organization  to  its  organization  under 
this  act,  and  from  the  time  of  such  organization,  or  change  of 
organization,  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  applicable  to 
such  cities  and  villages,  and  all  laws  in  conflict  therewith 
shall  no  longer  be  applicable.  But  all  laws  or  part  of  laws, 
not  inconsistent  with  this  act,  shall  continue  in  force  and  ap- 
plicable to  any  such  city  or  village,  the  same  as  if  such 
change  of  organization  had  not  taken  place. 

7.  Election  of  Officers. 

§ 7, • It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  president  and  board  of 
trustees  of  any  town  which  shall  liaA^e  voted  to  change  its 
organization  to  a city,  under  this  act,  to  call  and  give  no- 
tice of  an  election  to  elect  city  officers,  and  to  designate 
the  time  and  place  or  places  of  holding  the  same.  Such 
notice  shall  be  published  in  a newspaper,  if  there  be  one, 
within  the  town,  or  posted  in  ten  public  places,  for  at  least 
twenty  days  before  such  election.  Such  president  and  trus- 
tees shall  appoint  the  judges  and  clerks  to  hold  such  elec- 
tion, canvass  the  returns  thereof,  and  cause  the  result  to  be 
entered  upon  the  records  of  the  town;  and  the  provisions 
of  this  act,  relative  to  the  election  of  (*ity  officers,  shall  lx* 


CITY  CIIARTEK. 


applicable  thereto;  but,  at  such  election,  aldermen  maybe 
(dected  on  a g*enei*al  ticket. 

S.  When  County  Judge  to  Give  Notice  of  Election,  Etc. 

§ 8.  In  case  of  cities  org’anizingf  under  section  five  (5) 
of  this  article,  the  county  judge  shall  call  and  give  notice 
of  the  election,  and  perform  the  same  duties  relative  thereto 
as  is  above  reipiired  to  he  performed  by  president  and 
trustees  of  such  town,  and  in  canvassing  such  returns  shall 
call  to  his  assistance  two  justices  of  the  peace.  [See  § 53.] 

9.  Term  of  First  Officers. 

§ 9.  The  city  officers  elected  under  either  of  the  pre- 
ceding sections,  shall  hold  their  resiieidive  offices  until  the 
next  succeeding  regular  election  for  such  officers,  respect- 
ively, and  until  their  successors  are  eleeted  and  (pialified, 
as  provided  in  this  act. 

10.  Corporate  Name — Powers. 

§ 10.  Cities  organized  under  this  act  sliall  he  liodies 
politic  and  corporate,  under  the  name  and  style  of  “City  of 
(name),”  and  under  such  name  may  sue  and  he  sued,  con- 
tract and  he  contracted  with,  acquire  and  hold  real  and 
personal  jiroperty  for  corporate  purposes,  have  a common 
seal,  and  change  the  same  at  pleasure,  and  exercise  all  the 
])owers  hereinafter  eonferred. 

11.  Pi  iiOR Ordinances,  Etc.,  in  Force  Until,  Etc. 

§ 11.  All  ordinances,  resolutions  and  by-laws  in  forci' 
in  any  city  or  town  when  it  shall  organize  under  this  act, 
shall  continue  in  full  force  and  eftect  until  repealed  or 
amended,  notwithstanding  such  change  of  organization  ; 
and  the  makingof  such  change  of  organization  shall  notin' 
<*onstrued  to  effect  a change  in  the  legal  idi'iitity,  as  a cor- 
])oration,  of  such  city  or  town. 


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cm'  OF  JOLIET. 


12.  Rights,  Etc.,  of  old  Corporations  to  Vest  in  New. 

§ 12.  All  rights  and  property  of  every  kind  and  de- 
scription which  were  vested  in  any  municipal  corporation 
under  its  former  organization,  shall  be  deemed  and  held  to 
bo  vested  in  the  same  municipal  incorporation  upon  its  be- 
coming incorporated  under  the  provisions  of  this  act;  but 
no  rights  or  liabilities,  either  in  favor  of  or  against  such 
corporation,  existing  at  the  time  of  so  becoming  incor- 
porated under  this  act,  and  no  suit  or  prosecution  of  any 
kind,  shall  be  afiected  by  such  change,  but  the  same  shall 
stand  and  progress  as  if  no  change  had  been  made : Pro- 

vided^ that  when  a difterent  remedy  is  given  by  this  act, 
which  may  properly  be  made  applicable  to  any  right  ex- 
isting at  the  time  of  such  city  so  becoming  incoi’iiorated 
under  this  act,  the  same  shall  be  deemed  cumulative  to  the 
remedies  before  provided,  and  used  accordingly. 

13.  Record  of  Result  of  Election. 

§ 13.  The  corporate  authorities  of  any  city  or  village 
which  may  become  organized  under  this  act  shall,  within 
three  months  after  organization  hereunder,  cause  to  be 
filed  in  the  office  of  the  recorder  of  deeds,  in  the  county 
in  which  such  city  or  village  is  situated,  a certified  copy  of 
the  entry  made  upon  the  records  of  the  city,  village  or 
county  court,  of  the  canvass  of  the  votes,  showing  the  re- 
sult of  such  election,  whereby  such  city  or  village  became 
so  organized — and  such  recorder  of  deeds  shall  record  the 
same.  And  such  corporate  authorities  shall  also  cause  a 
like  certificate  to  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of 
state,  who  shall  file  the  same,  and  keep  a registry  of  cities 
and  villa«res  oro*anized  under  this  act. 

14-.  City  Register’s  Office  Abolished. 

§ 14.  If  any  city  organized,  or  which  may  hereafter  or- 
ganize under  this  act,  shall  have  had  by  the  terms  and 


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provisions  of  its  s[)ec*ial  charter,  a city  register’s  office  or 
other  office  in  which  deeds,  mortgages  or  other  instruments 
were  required  or  antliorized  by  law  to  be  recorded  in  lieu 
of  recording  the  same  in  the  recorder’s  office  in  any  count}' 
where  said  city  was  situated,  such  city  register’s  office  or 
recorder’s  office  shall  be  discontinued  under  this  act,  and 
the  city  register  or  recorder  or  other  officer  having  the 
custody  of  the  records,  books  and  papers  pertaining  to  such 
city  register  or  recorder’s  office,  shall  deposit  such  records 
and  books  and  papers  in  the  office  of  the  recorder  of  deeds 
of  the  county  in  which  such  city  is  situated,  and  shall  take 
the  receipt  of  the  recorder  of  deeds  therefor;  and  such 
records,  and  books,  and  papers,  shall  from  thereafter  be 
deemed  and  held  for  all  purposes  a part  of  the  records  of 
the  recorder’s  office  of  such  county,  and  shall  have  like  legal 
effect  as  if  the  same  had  been  originally  a part  of  the  records 
of  such  county  recorder’s  office  for  all  purposes  Avhatsoever, 
and  the  same  or  certified  transcripts  made  therefrom,  shall 
have  like  force  and  effect  as  evidence  as  other  records  of 
said  recorder’s  office.  [Added  by  act  approved  May  15, 
1871);  in  force  July  1,  1879.  L.  1879,  p.  (>5. 


ARTICLE  II. 

or  THE  MAYOR. 

15.  Mayor— His  Qualifications. 

Section  1.  The  chief  executive  officer  of  a city  shall  be 
a mayor  who  shall  be  a citizen  of  the  United  States,  a qual- 
ified elector,  reside  within  the  city  limits,  and  hold  his  office 
for  two  years,  and  until  his  successor  is  elected  and  quali- 
fied. 

16.  Vacancy  one  Year  or  Over. 

§ 2.  Whenever  a vacancy  shall  happen  in  the  office  of 


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the  mayor,  when  the  iiuexpired  term  shall  be  one  year  or 
over  from  the  date  when  the  vacancy  occurs,  it  shall  be  filled 
by  an  election. 

17.  Vacancy  Less  than  one  Yeah. 

§ 3.  If  the  vacancy  is  less  than  one  year,  the  city  coun- 
cil shall  elect  one  of  its  number  to  act  as  mayor,  who  shall 
possess  all  the  rights  and  powers  of  the  mayor  until  the 
next  annual  election,  and  until  his  successor  is  elected  and 
qualified. 

18.  Mayor  Pro  Tem. 

§ 4.  During  a temporary  abseu(*e  or  disability  of  the 
mayor,  the  city  council  shall  elect  one  of  its  number  to  act 
as  mayor  who  during  such  absence  or  disability, 

shall  possess  the  powers  of  mayor. 

10.  Vacancy  BY  Removal  from  City. 

§ 5.  If  the  mayor,  at  any  time  during  the  term  of  his 
office,  shall  remove  from  the  limits  of  the  city*,  his  office 
shall  thereby  become  vacant. 

20.  Mayor  to  Preside— Casting  vote, 

§ ().  The  mayor  shall  preside  at  all  meetings  of  the  city 
council,  but  shall  not  vote  except  in  case  of  a tie,  when  he 
sliall  give  the  casting  vote. 

21.  When  he  may  Remove  OFFicERv«i. 

§ 7.  The  mayor  shall  have  power  to  remove  any  officer 
appointed  by  him,  on  any  formal  charge,  whenever  he  shall 
be  of  the  opinion  that  the  interests  of  the  city  demand  such 
removal,  but  he  shall  report  the  reasons  for  such  removal 
to  the  council,  at  a meeting  to  be  held  not  less  than  five 
days,  nor  more  than  ten  days  after  such  removal;  and  if 
the  mayor  shall  fail  or  refuse  to  file  with  the  city  clerk  a 
statement  for  the  reasons  of  such  removal,  or  if  the  council 


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<) 

l)y  ;i  two-thirds  (I)  vote  of  all  its  mombers  authorized  hy  law 
to  he  elected,  by  yeas  and  nays,  to  lie  entered  n})on  its 
record,  disapiirove  of  such  removal,  sindi  officer  shall  th(‘re- 
upon  beeoine  restored  to  th(‘  office  from  which  he  was  so  re- 
moved ; bnt  he  shall  <i*ive  new  bonds  and  take  a ikav  oath  of 
office.  No  officer  shall  b(‘  removed  a second  time  for  the 
same  otlense.  [As  amended  by  act  approved  ^lay  15,  1S79; 
in  force  July  1,  1S71).  L.  1871),  p.  ()5.] 

2*2.  His  Power  to  Keep  Peace. 

§ 8.  ITo  may  exercise,  within  the  city  limits,  the  ])owers 
conferred  upon  sheriffs  to  snjipress  disorder  and  keep  tin* 
peace.  [See  § 84.] 

2l>.  Release  of  Prisoners. 

§ !).  He  may  release  any  person  imprisoned  for  viola- 
tion of  any  city  ordinance,  and  shall  re[)ort  such  release, 
with  the  cause  thereof,  to  the  council  at  its  first  session 
thereafter. 

24.  General  Duties. 

§ 10.  He  shall  jierforni  all  such  duties  as  are  or  may  lx* 
prescribed  by  law  or  by  city  ordinances,  and  shall  take  cari' 
that  the  laws  and  ordniances  are  faithfully  executed. 

2.>.  Power  to  Examine  Records,  Etc. 

§ 11.  II(‘  shall  have  power  at  all  times  to  examine  and 
inspect  the  books,  records  and  ))ai)ers  of  any  airont,  em- 
ploye or  officer  of  the  city. 

2(>.  Messages  to  Council. 

§ 12.  4'he  mayor  shall,  annually,  and  from  tiim*  to  time, 
irive  the  conneil  information  relative  to  the  affairs  of  the 
city,  and  shall  reeonnn(*nd  for  their  consid(‘ration  such 
ni(‘asures  as  he  may  decan  (‘xjiedient. 


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27.  To  Call  out  Militia,  Etc. — Riots,  Etc. 

§ 13.  lie  shall  have  power,  when  necessary,  to  call  on 
every  male  inhabitant  of  the  city  over  the  age  of  eighteen 
years,  to  aid  in  enforcing  the  laws  and  ordinances,  and  to 
call  out  the  militia  to  aid  in  suppressing  riots  and  other 
disorderly  conduct,  or  carrying  into  effect  any  law  or  or- 
dinance, snlijeet  to  the  authority  of  the  governor  as  eoni- 
mander-in-ehief  of  the  militia. 

28.  Misconduct,  Etc.,  of  Mayok  or  Othku  Officer — Pkntlty. 

§ 14.  In  ease  the  mayor  or  any  other  municipal  officer 
shall  at  any  time  iie  guilty  of  a palpable  omission  of  duty, 
or  shall  wilfully  and  corruptly  be  guilty  of  oppression, 
maleonduet  or  malfeasance  in  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of 
his  office,  he  shall  lie  liable  to  indictment  in  any  court  of 
competent  jurisdiction,  and,  on  conviction,  shall  be  fined 
in  a sum  not  exceeding  $1,000;  and  the  court  in  which  such 
conviction  shall  be  had  shall  enter  an  order  removing  such 
officer  from  office. 

2t).  Revising  Ordinances  After  Change  of  Organization. 

§ 15.  He  may  appoint,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the 
city  council,  immediately  after  such  change  of  organization, 
one  or  more  competent  persons  to  prepare  and  submit  to 
the  city  council  for  their  adoption  or  rejection,  an  ordinance 
in  revision  of  the  ordinances  of  such  city,  and  for  the  gov- 
ernment of  such  city,  the  compensation  of  such  reviser  or 
revisers  to  be  determined  and  fixed  by  the  city  council  and 
paid  out  of  the  city  treasury. 

ARTICLE  III. 

OF  THE  CITY  COUNCIL. 

.SO.  Council— How  Composed. 

§ 1.  The  city  council  shall  consist  of  the  mayor  and 
aldermen. 


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81.  Number  of  Aldermen. 

§ 2.  The  number  of  aldermen,  when  not  elected  hy  the 
minority  representation  plan,  shall  he  as  follows:  In  cities 
not  exeeedino*  three  thousand  inhabitants,  six  aldermen; 
exeeedino'  three  thousand  but  not  exceeding  fiye  thousand, 
eight  aldermen;  exceeding  tiye  thoiisand  and  not  exceeding 
ten  thonsand,  ten  aldermen ; exceeding  ten  thousand  and 
not  exceeding  thirty  thonsand,  fourteen  aldermen  ; and  two 
additional  aldermen  for  eyeiy  twenty  thonsand  inhabitants 
oyer  thirty  thonsand.  Provided,  however,  that  in  cities  of 
oyer  100,000  inhabitants,  there  shall  be  elected  thirty-six 
aldermen,  and  no  more.  [See  § 17().] 

32.  Term  of  Office. 

§ 8.  Aldermen  shall  hold  their  term  of  office  for  the 
term  of  two  years,  and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and 
([ualitied. 

33.  Vacancy. 

§ 4.  If  any  yacancy  shall  occur  in  the  office  of  alderman 
by  death,  resignation,  remoyal  or  otherwise,  such  yacancy 
shall  be  tilled  by  election. 

34.  Qualifications  op  Aldermen. 

§ 5.  Xo  person  shall  be  eligible  to  the  office  of  aider- 
man  unless  he  shall  be  a qualified  elector,  'and  reside  within 
the  ward  for  which  he  is  elected,  nor  shall  he  be  eligible  if 
he  is  in  arrears  in  the  payment  of  any  tax  or  otlier  liability 
due  to  the  city ; nor  shall  he  be  directly  or  indirectly  in- 
terested in  any  contract  whateyer  to  which  the  city  is  a 
])arty ; nor  shall  he  be  eligible  if  he  shall  haye  been  con- 
yicted  of  rnalfeasan(*c,  bribery  or  other  corrupt  jiractices  or 
crimes;  nor  shall  he  be  eligible  to  any  office,  the  salary  of 
which  is  payable  out  of  the  eity  treasury,  if  at  the  time  of 
his  appointment  he  shall  be  a member  of  the  city  council ; 


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nor  shall  any  nieiiiber  of  the  cit}^  council  at  the  same  time 
hold  any  other  office  under  the  city  government ; nor  shall 
he  be  either  directly  or  indirectly,  individnall}^  or  as  a inem- 
her  of  a tirm,  engaged  in  any  business  transaction  (other  than 
official)  with  such  city,  through  its  mayor  or  any  of  its 
authorized  boards,  agents  or  attorneys,  whereby  any  money 
is  to  be  })aid,  directly  or  indirectly,  out  of  the  city  treasury 
to  such  menilier  or  hrms. 

^55.  Couxcrii  Judce  of  its  Me.mbeiis. 

§ I).  The  city  conncil  shall  be  judge  of  the  election  and 
([nalihcation  of  its  own  members. 

.U>.  Rules — Expulsion — Bribery. 

§ 7.  It  shall  determine  its  own  rules  of  proceeding, 
punish  its  members  for  disorderly  conduct,  and  with  the 
concurrence  of  two-thirds  of  the  aldermen  elect,  may  expel 
a member,  but  not  a second  time  for  the  same  offense: 
Provided^  that  that  any  alderman  or  conncilman  who  shall 
have  lieen  convicted  of  bribery  shall  thereby  be  deemed  to 
have  vacated  his  office. 

37.  Quorum — Compelling  Attendance. 

§ 8.  A majority  of  the  aldermen  elect  shall  constitute 
a (]nornni  to  do  business,  but  a smaller  number  may  adjourn 
Tom  time  to  time,  and  may  compel  the  attendance  of  ab- 
sentees, under  such  penalties  as  may  be  prescribed  IVy  ordi- 
nance. 

3<S.  Meetings. 

§ 9.  The  city  conncil  may  prescribe,  by  ordinance,  the 
limes  and  places  of  the  meeting  thereof,  and  the  manner 
in  which  special  meetings  thereof  may  be  called. 

39.  Chairman  Pro  Tem. 

§ 10.  It  may  elect  a temporary  idiairman  in  the  absence 
of  the  mayor. 


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i:; 

+0.  Open  I)o<.ijs,  » 

§ 11.  It  shall  sit  with  open  doors. 

41.  JOUIIN  M..  / 

§ 12.  It  shall  kee[)  a journal  of  its  own  proe(H‘din<>s. 

42.  Yeas  AXi>  Mays— Record — Vote  Required. 

§ Id.  d'iic  yeas  and  nays  shall  be  taken  upon  the  pas- 
sa«*e  of  all  ordinances,  and  on  all  propositions  to  create  any 
liability  ayninst  the. city,  or  for  the  expenditure  or  appro- 
liriation  of  its  money,  and  in  all  other  eases  at  the  reipiest 
of  any  memhm*,  which  shall  be  entered  on  the  jonrnal  of  its 
proeeedinys : and  the  coneurrenee  of  a majority  of  all  the 
members  elected  in  the  city  eomieil  shall  be  necessary  to 
the  passaye  of  any  such  ordinance  or  proposition : Provided^ 
it  shall  requii’e  two-thirds  of  all  the  aldermen  elect  to  sell 
any  cit}'  or  s<-hool  pro[)erty. 

43.  Not  to  Rescind  Vote  at  Special  Meetings,  Unless,  Etc. 

§ 14.  No  vote  of  the  city  council  shall  be  reconsidered 
or  rescinded  at  a special  meetiny,  unless  at  such  special 
meetiny  there  be  present  as  larye  a immlier  of  aldermen  as 
were  present  when  such  vote  was  taken. 

44.  When  Report  Laid  Over. 

§ 15.  Any  report  of  a committee  of  the  council  shall  be 
deferred,  foi-  tinal  action  thereon,  to  the  next  reyular  meet- 
iny of  the  same  after  the  report  is  made,  upon  the  request 
of  any  two  aldermen  jiresent. 

4.>.  Territorial  Jurisdiction. 

§ 1().  The  city  council  and  board  of  trustees  shall  also 
have  jurisdiction  in  and  over  all  places  within  one-half 
mile  of  the  city  or  villaye  limits,  for  the  purpose  of  en- 
forciny  health  and  (piarantinc  ordinances  and  reyulations 
thereof.  [See  §§  72,  170.] 


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46  Special  MeetijsG. 

§ 17.  Tlie  mayor  or  any  three  alclermen  may  call  special 
meeting’s  of  the  city  council. 

47.  Ordinances — Approval — V eto, 

§ IS.  All  ordinances  passed  by  the  city  council  shall, 
before  they  take  effect,  be  deposited  in  the  office  of  the  city 
cderk;  and  if  the  mayor  approves  thereof,  he  shall  sign  the 
same,  and  such  as  he  shall  not  approve  he  shall  return  to 
the  council,  with  his  objections  thereto,  in  writing,  at  the 
next  regular  meeting  of  the  council , occurring  not  less  than 
hve  days  alter  the  passage  thereof.  Such  veto  may  extend 
to  any  one  or  more  items  or  appropriations  contained  in 
any  ordinance  making  an  appropriation,  or  to -the  entire 
ordinance;  and  in  case  the  veto  only  extends  to  a part  of 
such  ordinance,  the  residue  thereof  shall  take  effect  and  be 
In  force.  But  in  case  the  mayor  shall  fail  to  return  any 
ordinance,  with  his  objections  thereto,  by  the  time  afore- 
said, he  shall  be  deemed  to  have  approved  such  ordinance, 
and  the  same  shall  take  effect  accordingly. 

IS.  Reconsideration — Passing  over  Veto. 

§ 19.  Upon  the  return  ot  any  ordinance  by  the  mayor, 
the  vote  by  which  the  same  was  pavssed  shall  be  reconsid- 
‘red  by  the  council;  and  if,  after  such  reconsideration, 
Uvo-thirds  of  all  the  members  elected  to  the  city  council 
diall  agree,  by  yeas  and  nays,  to  pass  the  same,  it  shall  go 
into  effect,  notwithstanding  the  mayor  may  refuse  to  ap- 
prove thereof.  The  vote  to  pass  the  same  over  the  mayor’s 
veto  shall  be  taken  by  yeas  and  nays,  and  entered  on  the 
journal.,  

ARTICLE  IV. 

ELECTIONS. 

49.  Annual  Election. 

§ 1.  A general  election  for  city  officers  shall  be  held  on 


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tlio  tliiril  "Fiios  hiv  of  A])i‘il,  of  (‘ucli  year:  Provided^  that 
ill  cities  w’liich  iiiclii(le  wliolly  witliin  their  corporate 
limits  a town  or  towns,  such  election  shall  he  held  on  the 
first  Tuesday  of  Ajiril.  [As  amended  by  act  ap])i‘oved  and 
in  force  March  1),  1^77.  L.  1>S77,  p.  54.] 

.■>0.  Election  of  Mayoh.  City  Clerk,  Attorney  and  Treasi  rer. 

§ 2.  At  tin*  ^en(‘ral  election  held  in  1877,  and  biennially 
thereafter,  a mayor,  a city  clerk,  a city  attorne}^  and  a city 
treasurer  shall  be  elected  in  each  city:  Provided^  Wva\.  no 
person  shall  b(‘  elected  to  the  office  of  city  treasurer  for  two 
terms  in  succession.  [As  amended  by  act  ap})roYcd  and  in 
force  March  2(>,  1877.  L.  1877,  p.  54.] 

51.  Who  ENTiTr.Eo  to  Vote. 

§ y>.  All  jiersons  entitled  to  vote  at  any  oeneral  election 
for  state  officers,  within  any  city  or  villaofe,  haviiu^  resided 
therein  thirty  days  next  preceding  thereto,  may  vote  at 
any  election  for  city  or  villa<)fe  officers. 

52.  Wards. 

§ 4.  The  city  council  may,  from  time  to  tim(‘,  divide 
the  city  into  one-half  as  many  wards  as  the  total  nunibcu*  of 
aldermen  to  which  the  city  is  entitled ; and  one  alderman 
shall,  annually,  be  elected  in  and  for  each  ward,  to  hold  his 
office  for  two  years,  and  until  his  successor  is  elected  and 
(pialified.  In  the  formation  of  wards  the  pojmlation  of  each 
shall  be  as  nearly  eipial  and  the  ward  shall  b(‘ of  as  conijiact 
and  conti^ruous  territory  as  practicalile. 

53.  Aldermen  at  first  Election — Classifip:d. 

§ 5.  At  the  first  election  under  this  act,  thei’e  shall  be 
elected  the  full  nunib(*r  of  aldei-mento  which  the  city  shall 
be  entitled.  At  the  first  meeting'  of  the  city  council  aft(‘r 
such  election,  the  aldei-men  eha-ted  shall  lx*  divided,  by 
lot,  into  two  classes;  those  of  the  first  class  shall  eon- 


CITV  or  JOIJKT. 


tiinie  ill  office  for  one  year,  and  tliose  of  rlie  second 
for  two  years.  And  upon  any  increase  of  tie*  nnmh(T  of 
aldennen,  at  tlieir  first  election,  one-half  sliall  lie  elected 
tor  one  year,  and  one-half  for  two  years. 

’A.  Mixoiuty  Representation. 

§ h.  Whenever  this  act  shall  he  snl)initt(‘(|  to  the  (jnal- 
ified  electors  of  any  city  for  adoption,  there  shall  be  sub- 
mitted at  the  same  time,  for  adoption  or  reicction,  the 
(piestion  of  minority  representation  in  the  city  ronncil  or, 
lea’islative  authority  of  snch  city.  At  the  sai<l  election  the 
ballots  shall  be  in  the  following  form:  minority 

re])resentation  in  the  city  council,”  or,  “Against  minority 
representation  in  the  city  council.”  xVnd  at  any  subsequent 
time,  on  iietition  of  the  legal  voters  equal  in  number  to 
one-eighth  the  number  of  legal  votes  cast  at  the  next  pre- 
ceding general  city  election,  the  city  council  shall  cause 
the  (piestion  (d*  minority  reiiresentation  to  be  submitted  to 
file  legal  voters  of  said  city,  and  the  ballots  shn  II  be  in  form 
as  provided  in  this  section:  Provided^  that  no  snch  ques- 

tion of  representation  shall  be  submitted  mon*  than  once 
in  everv  two  years.  The  judges  of  snch  election  shall  make 
returns  thereof  to  the  city  council,  whose  duty  it  shall  be 
to  canvass  such  returns,  and  to  cause  the  resnlt  of  snch 
canvass  to  be  entered  on  the  records  of  svn-h  city.  If  a 
majority  of  the  votes  cast  at  snch  election  shall  be  “For 
eipial  representation  in  the  city  council,”  then  t he  members 
of  the  city  council  or  legislative  authority  <d'  snch  city 
shall  be  thereafter  elected  in  the  following  nmnner:  The 

council  or  legislati\e  anthority  of  snch  city,  at  least  one 
month  before  the  general  election  in  theyeai-  in  which  this 
act  shall  lake  etfect  in  such  city,  shall  a])[)ort imi  such  city. 
b\'  dividing  the  population  tlnn-eof,  as  ascei  talned  by  tlu‘ 


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last  federal  census,  any  number  not  less  than  two  nor 
more  than  six,  and  the  quotient  shall  be  the  ratio  of  repre- 
sentation in  the  city  council.  Districts  shall  be  formed  of 
contig'iions  and  compact  territory,  and  contain,  as  nearly 
as  practicable,  an  equal  number  of  inhabitants : And  pro- 
vided further,  that  where  said  council  or  legislative  au- 
thority of  sncli  city  have  not  fixed  a ratio  of  representation 
and  formed  the  districts  or  wards  at  the  time  above  speci- 
fied, the  same  may  be  done  by  any  subsequent  board  of 
aldermen;  but  all  official  acts  heretofore  done,  and  ordi- 
nances heretofore  passed  by  any  board  of  aldermen  elected 
at  large  by  the  legal  electors  of  any  such  city  on  the 
minority  representation  plan,  shall  be  held  and  taken  by 
all  courts  in  this  state  to  be  of  as  much  validity  and  binding 
force  as  it  they  had  been  elected  from  wards  or  districts. 
[As  amended  by  an  act  approved  and  in  force  April  11, 
1883.  L.  1883,  p.  56.J 

oo.  Aldermen  Under  Minority  Plan, 

§ 7.  Every  such  district  shall  be  entitled  to  three  aider- 
men,  who  shall  hold  their  office  for  two  years,  and  until 
their  successors  shall  be  elected  and  qualified.  At  the  first 
general  election  for  mayor  after  the  passage  of  this  act  and 
.every  two  years  thereafter,  there  shall  be  elected  in  each 
ward  as  many  aldermen  as  such  ward  shall  be  entitled  to: 
Provided.,  that  aldermen  elected  under  this  act,  in  wards 
wherein  aldermen  were  elected  for  two  years  at  the  last 
previous  annual  election,  shall  not  take  their  seats  as  such 
until  the  terms  of  the  aldermen  last  aforesaid  shall  exjiire. 
Vacancies  shall  be  filled  at  an  election  to  be  held  by  tin* 
voters  of  the  district  in  which  such  vacancies  shall  occur,  at 
the  time  to  be  designated  by  the  city  council.  In  all  elec- 
tions tor  a!dei*men,  aforesaid,  each  (jnalificd  voter  may  cast 


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as  many  votes  as  there  are  aldermen  to  be  elected  in  his 
district,  or  may  distribute  the  same,  or  equal  parts  thereof . 
amon^  the  candidates,  as  he  shall  see  fit,  and  the  candidates 
highest  in  votes  shall  be  declared  elected.  [As  amended  by 
act  approved  and  in  force  April  11,  1883.  L.  1883,  p.  57. 

56.  Aldermen  When  Minority  Plan  not  Adopted, 

§ 8.  If  a majority  of  the  votes  cast  at  such  election 
shall  be  “Against  minority  representation  in  the  city 
council,”  the  preceding  section  shall  be  null  and  void,  so 
far  as  it  relates  to  such  city  at  such  election,  and  the  aider- 
men  of  such  city  shall  be  elected  as  otherwise  provided  for 
in  this  act. 

57.  — Place  of  Election — Notice. 

§ 9.  The  city  council  shall  designate  the  place  or  places 
in  which  the  election  shall  be  held,  and  appoint  the  judges 
and  clerks  thereof,  and  cause  notice  to  be  printed  in  some 
newspaper  printed  in  such  city,  if  there  be  one,  or  posted 
at  each  voting  place  in  such  city,  of  the  time,  places  of 
election,  and  of  the  officers  to  be  elected,  for  at  least  twenty 
days  prior  to  such  election. 

58.  Manner  op  Conducting  Elections,  Etc. 

§ 10.  Tlie  manner  of  conducting  and  voting'  at  elections 
to^  be  held  under  this  act  and  contesting  the  same,  the  keep- 
ing ©f  poll  lists  and  canvassing  the  votes,  shall  be  the  same, 
as  nearly  as  may  be,  as  in  the  case  of  the  election  of  county 
officers,  under  the  general  laws  of  this  state.  The  judges 
of  election  shall  appoint  clerks,  when  necessaiy  to  fill  va- 
cancies, and  the  judges  and  clerks  shall  take  the  same  oath 
and  have  the  same  powers  and  authority  as  the  judges  and 
clerks  of  general  state  elections.  After  the  closing  of  the 
])olls,  the  balllots  shall  be  counted  and  the  returns  made 
out  and  returned,  under  seal,  to  the  city  or  village  clerk. 


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:is  the  .case  maybe,  within  two  days  after  the  election;  and, 
thereupon,  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees,  as  the  case 
may  be,  sliall  examine  and  canyass  the  same  and  declare 
the  resnlt  of  the  election,  and  cause  a statement  thereof  to 
be  entered  upon  its  journals. 

ol).  Kksult^ — Tie. 

§ 11.  The  person  haying  the  highest  number  of  yotes, 
for  any  office,  shall  be  declared  elected.  In  case  of  a tie  in 
the  election  of  any  city  or  yillage  officer,  it  shall  be  de- 
termined by  lot,  in  presence  of  the  city  coimcil  or  board 
of  trustees,  in  such  manner  as  they  shall  direct,  which  can- 
didate or  candidates  shall  hold  the  office. 

60.  Notice  to  Peksons  Elected  or  Appointed. 

§ 12.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  yillage  or  city  clerk, 
within  fiye  days  after  the  result  of  the  election  is  declared, 
or  appointment  made,  to  notify  all  persons  elected  or  ap- 
pointed to  office  of  their  election  or  appointment,  and 
unless  such  persons  shall  respectiyel}^  qualify  in  ten  days 
after  such  notice,  the  office  shall  become  yacant. 

61.  When  no  Quorum  in  Office — Special  Election. 

§ 13.  If,  for  any  cause,  there  shall  not  be  a quorum  in 
office  of  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees,  the  mayor, 
clerk,  or  any  alderman  or  trustee,  as  the  ease  may  be,  may 
appoint  the  time  and  place  for  holding  a special  election 
to  supply  such  yacancy,  and  giye  notice  and  appoint  tlu‘ 
judges  thereof. 

62.  Special  Elections. 

§ 14.  If  there  is  a failure  to  elect  any  officer  herein  re- 
quired to  be  elected  or  the  person  elected  should  fail  to 
qualify,  the  council  or  board  of  trustees  may  forthwith 
order  a new  election  tlierefor;  and  in  all  cases,  when 
necessary  for  the  purposes  of  this  act,  may  call  special 


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elections,  appoint  judges  and  clerks  thereof,  canvass  the 
returns  thereof,  and  provide  by  ordinance  the  mode  of 
conducting  the  same;  and  shall  give  notice  of  such  special 
elections,  in  which  shall  be  stated  the  questions  to  be  voted 
upon,  and  cause  such  notices  to  be  published  or  posted  for 
the  same  length  of  time  and  in  the  same  manner  as  is  re- 
quired in  the  case  of  regular  annual  elections  in  such  cities 
or  villages. 


ARTICLE  V. 

OF  THE  POWERS  OF  THE  CITY  COUNCIL. 

63. 

§ 1.  The  city  council  in  cities,  and  president  and  the 
board  of  trustees  in  villages,  shall  have  the  following 
powers : 

First — To  control  the  finances  and  property  of  the  cor- 
poration. 

Second — To  appropriate  money  for  corporate  purposes 
only,  and  provide  for  payment  of  debts  and  expenses  of  the 
corporation. 

Third — To  levy  and  collect  taxes  for  general  and  special 
purposes  on  real  and  personal  property.  [See  § § 90,  172.] 

Fourth — To  fix  the  amount,  terms  and  manner  of  issuing 
and  revoking  licenses. 

Fifth — To  borrow  money  on  the  credit  of  the  corporation 
for  corporate  purposes,  and  issue  bonds  therefor,  in  such 
amounts  and  form,  and  on  such  conditions  as  it  shall  pre- 
'icribe,  but  shall  not  become  indebted  in  any  manner  or  for 
any  purposes  to  an  amount,  including  existing  indebtedness, 
in  the  aggregate  to  exceed  five  (5)  per  centum  on  the 
value  of  the  taxable  property  therein,  to  be  ascertained  by 
the  last  assessment  for  state  and  county  taxes,  previous  to 


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the  incurring*  of  such  indebtedness ; and  before  or  at  the 
time  of  iiicnrrino*  any  indebtedness,  shall  provide  for  the 
collection  of  a direct  annual  tax  sufficient  to  pay  the  in- 
terest on  such  debt  as  it  falls  due,  and  also  to  pay  and  dis- 
charge the  principal  thereof  within  twenty  years  after  con- 
tracting the  same.  [See  § § 91,  110,  132.] 

Sixth — To  issue  bonds  in  place  of  or  to  supply  means  to 
meet  maturing  bonds,  or  for  the  consolidation  or  funding  of 
the  same. 

Seventh — To  lay  out,  to  establish,  open,  alter,  widen, 
extend,  grade,  pave  or  otherwise  improve  streets,  alleys, 
avenues,  sidewalks,  wharves,  parks  and  public  grounds,  and 
vacate  the  same.  [See  § ? 

Eighth — To  plant  trees  upon  the  same. 

Ninth — To  regulate  the  use  of  the  same. 

Tenth — To  prevent  and  remove  encroachments  or  ob- 
structions upon  the  same. 

Eleventh — To  provide  for  the  lighting  of  the  same. 

Twelfth — To  provide  for  the  cleansing  of  the  same. 

Thirteenth — To  regulate  the  openings  thereai  for  the 
laying  of  gas  or  water  mains  and  pipes,  and  the  building 
and  repairing  of  sewers,  tunnels  and  drains,  and  erecting 
gas  lights : Provided^  however^  that  any  company  heretofore 
organized  under  the  general  laws  of  this  state,  or  any 
association  of  persons  organized,  or  which  may  be  hereafter 
organized  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  illuminating 
gas  to  supply  cities  or  villages,  or  the  inhabitants  thereof, 
with  the  same,  shall  have  the  right,  by  consent  of 
the  common  council  (subject  to  existing  rights),  to  erect 
gas  factories,  and  lay  down  pipes  in  the  streets  or  alleys  of 
any  city  or  village  in  this  state,  subject  to  such  regulations 


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MS  any  such  city  or  village  may  by  ordinance  impose. 

Foukteenth — To  regulate  the  use  of  sidewalks  and  all 
structures  thereunder;  and  to  require  the  owner  or  occu- 
pant of  any  premises  to  keep  the  sidewalks  in  front  of,  or 
along  the  same,  free  from  snow  and  other  obstructions. 

Fifteenth — To  regulate  and  prevent  the  throwing  or  de- 
positing of  ashes,  offal,  dirt,  garbage  or  any  oftensive  matter 
in,  and  to  prevent  injury  to,  any  street,  avenue,  alley  or 
public  ground. 

Sixteenth — To  provide  for  and  regulate  crosswalks, 
curbs  and  gutters. 

Seventeenth — To  regulate  and  prevent  the  use  of  streets, 
sidewalks  and  public  grounds  for  signs,  sign-posts,  awn- 
ings, awning-posts,  telegraph  poles,  horse  troughs,  racks, 
posting  hand  bills  and  advertisements. 

Eighteenth — To  regulate  and  prohibit  the  exhibition  or 
carrying  of  banners,  placards,  advertisements  or  handbills 
in  the  streets  or  public  grounds,  or  upon  the  sidewalks. 

Nineteenth — To  regulate  and  prevent  the  flying  of  flags, 
banners  or  signs  across  the  streets  or  from  houses. 

Twentieth — To  regulate  traffic  and  sales  upon  the  streets, 
sidewalks  and  public  places. 

TVenty-first — To  regulate  the  speed  of  horses  and  other 
animals,  vehicles,  cars  and  locomotives  within  the  limits 
of  the  corporation. 

Twenty-second — To  regulate  the  numbering  of  houses 
and  lots. 

Twenty-third — To  name  and  change  the  name  of  any 
street,  avenue,  alley,  or  other  public  place. 

Twenty-fourth — To  permit,  regulate  or  prohibit  the  lo- 
cating, constructing  or  laying  a track  of  any  horse  railroad 


in  any  street , alley  or  public  ])laee;  but  sneli  permission 
shall  not  be  for  a longer  time  than  twenty  years. 

Twenty-fifth — To  })rovide  for  and  change  the  location, 
irrade  and  erossinofs  of  ain^  railroad. 

Twenty-sixth — To  require  railroad  eompanies  to  fence 
their  respective  railroads,  or  any  portion  of  the  same,  and 
to  construet  cattle-gnards,  crossino-s  of  streets,  and  piddie 
roads,  and  keep  the  same  in  repair,  within  the  limits  of  th(‘ 
corporation.  Tn  case  any  railroad  company  shall  fail  to 
comi)ly  with  any  such  ordinance,  it  shall  be  liable  for  all 
damages  the  owner  of  any  cattle  or  horses  or  other  domestic  , 
animal,  may  sustain,  by  reason  of  injuries  thereto  while  on 
the  track  of  such  railroad,  in  like  manner  and  extent  as 
under  the  general  laws  of  this  state,  relative  to  the  fencing 
of  railroads;  and  actions  to  recover  such  damages  may  be 
instituted  before  any  justice  of  the  peace  or  other  court  of 
competent  jurisdiction. 

Twenty-seventh — To  require  railroad  com])anics  to  keep 
Hagmen  at  railroad  crossings  of  streets,  and  provide  pro- 
tection against  injury  to  person  and  property  in  the  use  of 
such  railroads.  To  compel  such  railroads  to  raise  or  lower 
their  railroad  tracks  to  conform  with  any  grade  which  may, 
at  any  time,  be  established  by  such  city,  and  where  such 
tracks  run  lengthwise  of  any  such  street,  alley  or  highway, 
to  k(;ep  their  railroad  tracks  on  a level  with  the  street  sur- 
face, and  so  that  such  tracks  may  be  crossed  at  any  placa' 
on  such  street,  alley  or  highway.  To  compel  and  recallin' 
railroad  companies  to  make  and  kee})  o])on  and  to  keep  in 
repair  ditches,  drains,  sewers  and  culverts  along  and  under 
tiieir  railroad  tracks,  so  that  filthy  or  stagnant  jiools  of 
water  cannot  stand  on  their  grounds  or  right  of  way,  and 


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SO  that  the  natural  drainage  of  adjacent  property  shall  not 
be  impeded. 

Twenty-eighth — To  construct  and  keep  in  repair  bridges, 
viaducts  and  tunnels,  and  to  regulate  the  use  thereof. 

Taventy-ninth — To  construct  and  keep  in  repair  cuh^erts, 
drains,  sewers  and  cesspools,  and  to  regulate  the  use 
thereof. 

Thirtieth — To  deepen,  widen,  dock,  cover,  wall,  alter  or 
change  the  channel  of  water  courses. 

Thirty-first — To  construct  and  keep  in  repair  canals  and 
slips  for  the  accommodation  of  commerce. 

Thirty-second — To  erect  and  keep  in  repair  public  land- 
ing places,  wharves,  docks  and  levees. 

Thirty-third — To  regulate  and  control  the  use  of  public 
and  private  landing  places,  wharves,  docks  and  levees. 

Thirty-fourth — To  control  and  regulate  the  anchorage, 
moorage  and  landing  of  all  water  craft  and  their  cargoes 
Avithin  the  jurisdiction  of  the  corporation. 

Thirty-fifth — To  license,  regulate  and  prohibit  Avharf- 
boats,  tugs  and  other  boats  used  about  the  harbor  or  Avithin 
such  jurisdiction. 

Thirty-sixth — To  fix  the  rate  of  Avharfage  and  dockage. 

Thirty-sea  ENTH — To  collect  wharfage  and  dockage  from 
all  boats,  rafts  or  other  craft  landing  at  or  using  any  public 
landing  place,  Avharf,  dock  or  levee  Avithin  the  limits  of  the 
corporation. 

Thirty-eighth — To  make  regulations  in  regard  to  the 
use  of  harbors,  toAving  of  vessels,  opening  and  passing  of 
bridges. 

Tmim-NINTH — To  appoint  harbor  masters  and  define 
their  duties. 


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Fortieth — "lo  provide  for  the  cleaiisin«*  and  puritication 
of  waters,  water  courses  and  canals,  and  the  draining  or 
filling  of  ponds  on  private  property,  whenever  necessary  to 
])revent  or  abate  nuisances. 

P\)RTY-FiRST — To  liccuse,  tax,  regulate,  suppress  and 
])rohibit  hawkers,  pedlers,  pawn-brokers,  keepers  of  ordi- 
naries, theatricals  and  other  exhibitions,  shoAVS  and  ainnse- 
inents,  and  to  reA'oke  such  licenses  at  pleasure. 

Forty-second — To  license,  tax  and  regulate  hackmen, 
draymen,  omnibus  driA^ers,  carters,  cabmen,  porters,  ex- 
])ressmen,  and  all  others  pursuing  like  occupations,  and  to 
])rescribe  their  compensation. 

FoRTi’-THiRD — To  liceiisc,  regulate,  tax  and  restrain  run- 
ners for  stages,  cars,  public  houses,  or  other  things  or  per- 
sons. 

Forty-fourth — To  license,  regulate,  tax  or  prohibit  and 
suppress  billiard,  bagatelle,  pigeon-hole  or  any  other  tables 
or  implements  kept  or  used  for  a similar  purposes  in  any 
place  of  public  resort,  pin  alleys  and  ball  alleys. 

PVjrty-fifth — To  suppress  baAvdy  and  disorderly  houses, 
houses  of  ill-fame  or  assignation,  Avithin  the  limits  of  tlur 
<*ity,  and  Avithin  three  miles  of  the  outer  boundaries  of  the 
city;  and  also  to  suppress  gaming  and  gambling  houses, 
lotteries,  and  all  fraudulent  devices  and  practices  for  the 
purpose  of  gaming  or  obtaining  money  or  property;  and  to 
prohibit  the  sale  or  exhibition  of  obscene  or  immoral  ])ubli- 
cations,  prints,  pictures  or  illustrations. 

Forta -SIXTH — To  license,  regulate  and  prohibit  the  selling 
or  giA  ing  away  of  any  intoxicating  malt,  Aunous,  mixed  or 
fermented  liquor,  the  license  not  to  extend  beyond  the  mun- 
icipal year  i]]  wdiich  it  shall  be  granted,  and  to  determine 


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the  aiiioimt  to  be  paid  for  such  license ; Provided^  that  the 
city  council  in  cities,  or  president  and  board  of  trustees  in 
villao-es,  may  g'rant  permits  to  driig’ojsts  for  the  sale  of 
liquors  for  medicinal,  mechanical,  sacramental  and  chemical 
purposes  only,  subject  to  forfeiture,  and  under  such  restric- 
tions and  regadations  as  may  be  provided  by.  ordinance: 
Provided^  further^  that  in  gi’anting'  licenses  such  corporate 
authorities  shall  comply  with  Avliatever  gfeneral  law  of  the 
state  may  be  in  force  relative  to  the  gTanting’  of  licenses. 

Form'-SEVENTTi — The  foreo-oino*  shall  not  be  construed  to 
aftect  the  provisions  of  the  charter  of  any  literary  institu- 
tion heretofore  ovanted. 

Fouty-eigiith — And  the  city  council  in  cities,  and  presi- 
dent and  board  of  trustees  in  villagfes,  shall  also  have  the 
poAver  to  forbid  and  ])unish  the  selling  or  giving  aAvay  of 
ain"  intoxicating,  malt,  vinous,  mixed  or  fermented  liquor 
to  any  minor,  apprentice  or  servant,  or  insane,  idiotic  or 
distracted  ])erson,  habitual  drunkard,  or  person  intoxicated.- 

Fokty-nixth — To  establish  markets  and  market-houses, 
and  i)i’ovide  for  the  regulation  and  use  thereot. 

Fiftieth — To  regrilate  the  sale  of  meats,  poultry,  fish,  but- 
ter, cheese,  lard,  A^egetables,  and  all  other  provisions,  and  to 
proAude  for  ]>lace  and  maimer  of  selling  the  same. 

Fifta'-ftrst — To  preA^ent  and  ]umish  forestalling  and  re- 
grating’. 

Fifty-second — To  regulate  the  sale  of  bread  in  the  city  or 
A'illage;  prescribe  the  AA^eight  and  quality  of  the  bread  in 
the  loaf. 

Fifta'-tmiud — To  provide  for  and  regulate  the  inspection 
of  meats,  poultry,  fish,  butter,  cheese,  lard,  vegetables, 
cotton,  tobacco,  flour,  meal  and  other  provisions. 


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FiFTY-fX)iTmi — To  regulate  the  inspection,  Aveighiiig  and 
measuring'  of  brick,  lumber,  tire  wood,  coal,  bay,  and  any 
article  of  mercbandise. 

, Fifty-fifth — To  provide  for  the  inspection  and  sealing  of 
wc'igbts  and  measures. 

Fifty-sixth — To  enforce  the  keeping  and  use  of  proper 
wcio’bts  and  measures  by  vendors. 

Fifty-seventh — To  regulate  the  construction,  repairs  and 
use  of  vaults,  cisterns,  areas,  hydrants,  pumps,  sewers  and 
gutters. 

Fifty-eighth — To  rc'gnlate  places  of  amusement. 

Fifty-ninth — To  prevent  intoxication,  fighting,  quarrel- 
ing, dog  fights,  cock  fights,  and  all  disorderly  condnet. 

Sixtieth — To  regulate  partition  fences  and  party  Avails. 

SixTY-riKST — To  prescribe  the  thickness,  strength  and 
manner  of  constructing'  stone,  brick  and  other  buildings, 
and  construction  of  fire  escapes  therein. 

Sixty-second — The  city  council,  and  the  president  and 
trustees  in  \dllages,  for  the  purpose  of  guarding  against  the 
calamities  of  fire,  shall  have  poAver  to  prescribe  the  limits 
within  Avhich  Avooden  buildings  shall  not  be  erected  or 
repaired,  Avithout  permission,  and  to^direct  that  all  and  any 
buildings  Avithin  the  fire  limits,  Avhen  the  same  shall  have 
been  damaged  by  fire,  decay,  or  otherAvise,  to  the  extent  of 
fifty  per  cent  of  the  Audue,  shall  be  torn  doAvn  or  removed, 
and  to  prescribe  the  manner  of  ascertaining  such  damage. 

Sixty-third — To  prevent  the  dangerous  construction  and 
condition  of  ehimneys,  fire-places,  hearths,  stoves,  stove- 
pipes, ovens,  boilers,  and  apparatus  used  in  and  about  any 
building  or  manufactory,  and  to  cause  the  same  to  be  re- 
moved or  placed  in  a safe  condition,  Avhen  considered  dan- 


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i^erous;  to  regulate  and  prevent  the  carrying  on  of  manu- 
factories dangerous  in  causing  and  promoting  tires;  to 
prevent  the  deposit  of  ashes  in  unsafe  places,  and  to  cause 
all  such  buildings  and  enclosures  as  may  be  in  a dangerous 
state  to  be  put  in  a safe  condition. 

Sixty-fourth — ^To  erect  engine  houses,  and  provide  tire 
engines,  hose  carts,  hooks  and  ladders,  and  other  imple- 
ments for  prevention  and  extinguishment  of  tires,  and  pro- 
vide for  the  use  and  manag'ement  of  the  same  by  voluntary 
tire  companies  or  otherwise. 

SixTi'-FiFTH — To  regulate  and  prevent  storage  of  gun- 
powder, tar,  pitch,  resin,  coal  oil,  benzine,  turpentine, 
hemp,  cotton,  nitro  glycerine,  petroleum,  or  any  of  the 
products  thereof,  and  other  combustible  or  explosive  ma- 
terial, and  the  use  of  lights  in  stables,  shops  and  other 
places,  and  the  building  of  bonfires;  also  to  regulate  and 
restrain  the  use  of  fire-works,  fire-crackers,  torpedoes, 
Roman  candles,  sky-rockets,and  other  pyrotechnic  displays. 

SixTY-sixTH — To  regulate  the  police  of  the  city  or  village, 
and  pass  and  enforce  all  necessary  police  ordinances. 

SixTY-SEVEXTH — -'I'o  provide  for  the  inspection  o^'  steam 
boilers. 

Sixty-eighth — To  jirescribe  the  duties  and  powers  ot  a 
superintendent  of  police,  policemen  and  watchmen. 

Sixty-ninth — To  establish  and  erect  calabooses,  bride- 
wells, houses  of  correction  and  workhouses,  for  the  refor- 
mation and  confinement  of  vagrants,  idle  and  disorderly 
})ersons,  and  persons  convicted  of  violating  any  city  or  vil 
lage  ordinance,  and  make  rules  and  regulations  for  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  same,  and  appoint  necessary  keepers  and  as- 
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Sea'entietii — To  use  the  eoiiiity  jail  for  the  confinement 
or  punishment  ofoftenders,  subject  to  such  conditions  as  are 
imposed  by  law,  and  with  the  consent  of  the  county  hoard. 

Se\  EXTY-FiKST — -To  pi’ovide  by  ordinance  in  regard  to  the 
relation  between  all  the  ofiicers  and  employes  of  the  cor- 
poration in  resiiect  to  each  other,  the  corportiou  and  the 
))coplc. 

Sevexty-second— To  prevent  and  suppress  riots,  routs, 
attrays,  noises,  disturbances,  disorderly  assemblies  in  any 
public  or  private  place. 

Seventy-third — To  prohibit  and  punish  cruelty  to  ani- 
mals. 

Sevexty-foukth — To  restrain  and  punish  vagrants,  men- 
dicants and  prostitutes. 

Seventy-fifth — To  declare  what  shall  be  a nuisance,  and 
to  abate  the  same;  and  to  impose  fines  upon  parties'  who 
may  create,  continue  or  suffer  nuisances  to  exist. 

Seventy-sixth — To  appoint  a board  of  health,  aud  pre- 
scribe its  powers  and  duties. 

Seventy'-seventh — To  erect  and  establish  hospitals  and 
medical  dispensaries,  and  control  and  regulate  the  same. 

Seventy-eighth — To  do  all  acts,  make  all  regulations 
which  may  be  necessary  or  expedient  for  the  promotion  of 
health  or  the  suppression  of  disease. 

Seventy-ninth — To  establish  and  regulate  cemeteries, 
within  or  without  the  corporation,  and  acquire  lands 
therefor,  by  purchase  or  otherwise,  and  cause  cemeteries  to 
be  removed,  and  prohibit  their  establishment  within  one 
mile  of  the  corporation. 


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Kkjiitieth — To  regulate,  restrain  and  prohibit  the  run- 
ning at  large  of  horses,  cattle,  swine,  sheep,  goats,  geese 
and  dogs,  and  to  impose  a tax  on  dog's. 

Eigjitv-fikst — To  direct  the  location  and  regulate  the* 
management  and  construction  of  packing’ houses,  renderies, 
tallow  chandleries,  bone  factories,  soap  factories  and  tan- 
neries, within  the  limits  of  the  city  or  villages  and  within 
the  distance  of  one  mile  without  the  city  or  village  limits. 

Kighit-second — To  direct  the  location  and  regulate  the 
use  and  construction  of  breAveries,  distilleries,  livery  stables, 
blacksmith  shops  and  foundries  Avithin  the  limits  of  the 
city  or  village. 

EiGnTY-TiiiRD — To  prohibit  any  offensive  or  unwholesome 
business  or  establishment  Avithin,  or  Avithin  one  mile  of  the 
limits  of  the  corporation. 

Eighty-fourth — To  compel  tin'  oAvnier  of  any  grocery, 
cellar,  soap  or  talloAV  chandlery,  tannery,  stable,  pig-sty, 
privy,  seAver,  or  other  unwholesome  or  nauseous  house  or 
place,  to  cleanse,  abate  or  remove  the  same,  and  to  regulate 
the  location  thereof. 

EiGirrY-FiFTH — The  city  council,  or  trustees  of  a villagCy 
shall  have  poAver  to  provide  for  the  taking  of  the  city  or 
village  census;  but  no  city  or  villag’e  census  shall  be  taken 
by  authority  of  the  council  or  trustees  oftener  than  once  in 
three  years. 

EiGHTY-sixni — -To  provide  for  the  erection  and  care  of 
all  ]uiblic  buildings  necessary  for  the  use  of  the  city  or  vil- 
lage. 

EiGirrY-SEVENTH — To  establish  ferries,  toll  bridges,  and 
license  and  regulate  tlie^  same,  and,  from  time  to  time,  fix 
tolls  thereon.  [See  § 18G.] 


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Eighty-eiCtHTit — To  anthorize  tlie  construction  of  mills, 
mill-races  and  feeders  on,  through  or  aerovss  tlie  streets  of 
the  city  or  village,  gt  such  places  and  under  such  restrictions 
as  they  shall  deem  proper. 

Eigtitv-nixth — The  city  council  shall  have  power,  hy  con- 
demnation or  otherwise,  to  extend  any  street,  alley  or  high- 
way over  or  across,  or  to  construct  any  sewer  under  or 
through  any  railroad  traek,  right  of  way,  or  land  of  anj^  rail- 
road company  (within  the  corporate  limits);  but  where  no 
rompensation  is  made  to  such  railroad  (‘omjniny,  the  city 
shall  restore  such  railroad  track,  right  of  wniy  or  land  to  its 
former  state,  or  in  a sufficient  manner  not  to  have  im])a‘/red 
its  usefulness. 

Nixr:TiETif — The  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  shall 
have  no  power  to  grant  the  use  of,  or. the  right  to  lay 
downi,  any  railroad  track  in  any  street  of  the  city,  to  any 
steam  or  horse  railroad  company,  except  upon  a petition 
of  the  owners  of  the  land  representing  more  than  one-half 
of  the  frontage  of  the  street,  or  so  much  thereof  as  is  sought 
to  be  used  for  railroad  purposes. 

Ninety-first — To  tax,  license  and  regulate  auctioneers, 
distillers,  brewers,  lumber  yards,  livery  stables,  ])ublic 
scales,  money  changers  and  brokers. 

NixEri’-SECOXi) — To  prevent  and  regulate  the  rolling  of 
hoops,  ])laying  of. ball,  flying  of  kites,  or  any  other  amuse- 
ment or  practice  having  a tendency  to  annoy  persons  passing 
in  the  streets  or  on  the  sidewalks,  or  to  frio'hten  teams  and 
horses. 

Nixr:TY-THiRD — To  regulate  and  j)rohibit  the  keeping  of' 
uny  lumber  yard,  and  the  placing  or  jiiling  or  selling  any 
lumber,  timber,  wmod  or  other  combustilile  material,  within 
the  fire  limits  of  the  city. 


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Ninety-fourth — To  provide,  by  ordinance,  that  all  the 
paper,  printing,  stationery,  blanks,  fuel,  and  all  the  supplies 
needed  for  the  use  of  the  city,  shall  be  furnished  by  contract, 
let  to  the  lowest  bidder. 

Ninety-fifth — To  tax,  license  and  regulate  second-hand 
and  junk  stores,  and  to  forbid  their  purchasing  or  receiving 
from  minors,  without  the  written  consent  of  their  ])arents 
or  guardians,  any  article  whatsoever. 

Ninety-sixth — To  pass  all  ordinances,  rules,  and  make  all 
regulations,  proper  or  necessary,  to  carry  into  effect  tin* 
powers  granted  to  cities  or  villages,  with  such  fines  or  pen- 
alties as  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  shall  deem 
proper:  Provided^  no  fine  or  penalty  shall  exceed  $200,  and 
no  imprisonment  shall  exceed  six  months  for  one  oflense. 

Style  ob’  Ordinances. 

§ 2.  The  style  of  the  ordinances  in  cities  shall  be:  “Be 
it  ordained  by  the  city  council  of ” 

fto.  Pi  RLiCATiON  OB’ Ordinances — When  Take  Efb^ect. 

§ 3.  All  ordinances  of  cities  and  villages  imposing  any 
fine,  penalty,  imprisonment  or  forfeiture,  or  making  any 
appropriation,  shall,  within  one  month  after  they  are  passed, 
be  published  at  least  once  in  a newspaper  published  in  the 
city  or  village,  or,  if  no  such  newspaper  is  published  therein, 
by  posting  copies  of  the  same  in  three  public  places  in  the 
city  or  village;  and  no  such  ordinance  shall  take  eftect 
until  ten  days  after  it  is  so  published.  And  all  other  ordi- 
nances, orders  and  resolutions  shall  take  effect  from  and 
after  their  passage,  unless  otherwise  provided  therein. 

66.  Proof  of  Ordinances. 

§ 4.  All  ordinances,  and  the  date  of  publication  thereof, 
may  be  proven  by  the  certificate  of  the  clerk,  under  the  seal 


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of  the  corporation.  And  when  printed  in  book  or  pamphlet 
form,  and  purporting  to  be  published  by  authority  of  the 
board  of  trustees  or  the  city  council,  the  same  need  not  be 
otherwise  published ; and  such  book  or  pamphlet  shall  be 
received  as  evidence  of  the  passage  and  legal  publication  ot 
such  ordinances,  as  of  the  dates  mentioned  in  such  book  or 
pamphlet,  in  all  courts  and  places  without  further  proof. 

67.  Suits  for  Violating  Ordinances. 

§ 5.  All  actions  brought  to  recover  any  fine,  or  to  en- 
force any  penalty  under  any  ordinance  of  any  city  or  vil- 
lage, shall  be  brought  in  the  corporate  name  of  the  city  or 
village  as  plaintift*;  and  no  prosecution,  recovery  or  ac- 
quittal, for  the  violation  of  any  such  ordinance,  shall  con- 
stitute a defense  to  any  other  prosecution  of  the  same  party 
for  any  other  violation  of  any  such  ordinance,  although  tlie 
different  causes  of  action  existed  at  the  same  time,  and,  if 
united,  would  not  have  exceeded  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
court  or  magistrate. 

68.  Fi^^es  and  Licenses — Paid  to  Treasurer. 

§ 0.  All  fines  and  forfeitures  for  the  violation  of  ordin- 
ances, when  collected,  and  all  moneys  collected  for  licenses 
or  otherwise,  shall  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  corpora- 
tion, at  such  times  and  in  such  manner  as  maybe  prescribed 
by  ordinance. 

69.  Summons — affidavit— Punishment. 

§ 7.  In  all  actions  for  the  violation  of  any  ordinance, 
the  first  process  shall  be  a summons ; Provided^  howeve?', 
that  a warrant  for  the  arrest  of  the  offender  may  issue  in 
the  first  instance  upon  the  affadavit  of  any  person  that  any 
such  ordinance  has  been  violated,  and  that  the  person  mak- 
ing the  coni])laint  has  reasonable  grounds  to  believe  the 


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party  charged  is  guilty  thereof;  and  any  person  arrested 
upon  such  warrant  shall,  without  unnecessary  delay,  he 
taken  before  the  proper  officer  to  be  tried  for  the  alleged 
ottense.  Any  person  upon  whom  any  hue  or  penalty  shall  be 
imposed,  may,  upon  the  order  of  the  court  or  magistrate 
before  whom  the  conviction  is  had,  be  committed  to  the 
county  jail  or  the  calaboose,  city  prison,  workhouse,  house 
of  correction,  or  other  place  provided  by  the  city  or  village 
for  the  incarceration  of  offenders,  until  such  fine,  penalty 
and  cost  shall  fully  be  paid ; Provided^  that  no  such  im- 
prisonment shall  exceed  six  months  for  any  one  offense. 
The  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  shall  have  power  to 
provide,  by  ordinance,  that  every  person  so  committed  shall 
be  required  to  work  for  the  corporation,  at  such  labor  as  his 
or  her  strength  will  permit,  within  and  without  such 
prison,  work-house,  house  of  correction,  or  other  place  pro- 
vided for  the  incarceration  of  such  offenders,  not  exceeding 
ten  hours  each  working  day ; and  for  such  work  the  person 
so.  employed  to  be  allowed,  exclusive  of  his  or  her  board, 
$2  for  each  day’s  work  on  account  of  such  fine  and  cost. 

70.  JUKTSTUCTION  OF  JUSTICES,  EtC. 

§ 8.  Any  and  all  justices  of  the  peace  and  police  magis- 
trates shall  have  jurisdiction  in  all  cases  arising  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  or  any  ordinance  passed  in  pursuance 
thereof. 

71.  Constable  or  Sheriff  may  Serve  Process,  Etc. 

§ 9.  Any  coiistable^or  sheriff  of  the  county  may  serve  any 
process,  or  make  any  arrests  authorized  to  be  made  by  any 
city  officer. 

72.  Jurisdiction  Over  Waters — Street  Labor. 

§ 10.  The  city  or  village  government  shall  have  juris- 
diction upon  all  waters  within  or  bordering  upon  the  same, 


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to  the  extent  of  three  miles  beyond  the  limits  of  the  city  or 
village,  but  not  to  exceed  the  limits  of  the  state;  and  may, 
by  ordinance,  require  every  able-bodied  male  inhabitant,  of 
such  city  or  village,  above  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  and 
under  the  age  of  lifty  3^ears,  (excepting  paupers,  idiots, 
lunatics,  and  such  others  as  are  exempt  by  law),  to  labor 
on  the  streets  and  alleys  of  such  city  or  village,  not  more 
than  three  days  in  each  year;  but  such  ordinance  shall  pro- 
vide for  commutation  of  such  labor  at  not  more  than  one 
dollar  and  lifty  cents  per  day.  [As  amended  by  act  ap- 
proved April  10th,*  1875.  In  force  July  1,  1875.] 


ARTICLE  VI. 

OFFICERS — THEIR  POWERS  AND  DUTIES. 

73.  Officers. 

§ 1.  There  shall  be  elected,  in  all  cities  organized  under 
this  act,  the  following  officers,  viz:  a mayor,  a city  council, 
a city  clerk,  city  attorney,  and  a city  treasurer. 

74  Other  Officers — Duties  of  City  Marshal. 

§ 2.  The  city  council  may,  in  its  discretion,  from  time 
to  time,  by  ordinance  passed  by  a vote  of  two-thirds  of  all 
the  aldermen  elected,  provide  for  the  election  by  the  legal 
voters  of  the  city,  or  the  appointment  by  the  mayor,  with 
the  approval  of  the  city  council,  of  a city  collector,  a city 
marshal,  a superintendent  of  streets,  a corporation  council, 
a city  comptroller,  or  any  or  either  of  them,  and  such  other 
officers  as  may  by  said  council  be  deemed  necessary  or  ex- 
pedient. The  city  council  may  by  a like  vote,  by  ordinance 
or  resolution,  to  take  effect  at  the  end  of  the  then  fiscal 
yejir,  discontinue  any  office  so  created,  and  devolve  the 
duties  thereof  on  any  other  city  officer,  and  no  officer  filling 


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jiiiy  such  office  so  discontinued,  shall  have  any  claim  against 
the  city  on  account  of  his  salary,  after  such  discontinuance. 
The  city  marshal  shall  perform  such  duties  as  shall  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  city  council  for  the  preservation  of  the  public 
peace,  and  the  observance  and  enforcement  of  the  ordin- 
ances and  laws ; he  shall  possess  the  power  and  authority  of 
a constable  at  common  law,  and  under  the  statutes  of  this 
state. 

75.  Appointments — Vacancies — Duties — Powers. 

§ 3.  All  officers  of  any  city,  except  where  herein  other- 
wise provided,  shall  be  appointed  by  the'mayor,  (and  vacan- 
cies in  all  offices  except  the  mayor  and  aldermen  shall  be  filled 
by  like  appointment),  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  city  council.  The  city  council  may,  by  ordinance,  not 
inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  prescribe  the 
duties  and  define  the  powers  of  all  such  officers, together  with 
the  term  of  any  such  office ; Provided^  the  term  shall  not  ex- 
ceed two  years.  [See  §§  16,  10,  33.] 

76.  Oath — Bond. 

§ 4.  All  officers  of  any  city  or  village,  whether  elected  or 
appointed,  shall,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  their 
respective  offices,  take  and  subscribe  the  following  oath  or  , 
affirmation. 

I do  solemnly  swear  (or  affirm,  as  the  case  may  be,)  that  I will  support  the 
constitution  of  the  United  States,  and  the  constitution  of  the  State  of  Illi- 
nois, and  that  I will  faithfully  discharge  the  duties  of  the  office  of...  

according  to  the  best  of  my  ability. 

Which  oath  or  affirmation,  so  subscribed,  shall  be  filed  in 
the  office  of  the  clerk.  And  all  such  officers,  except  alder- 
men and  trustees,  shall  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of 
their  respective  offices,  execute  a bond  with  security,  to  be 
approved,  by  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees,  payable 
to  the  city  or  village,  in  such  penal  sum  as  may,  by  reso- 


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lution  or  ordinance,  be  directed,  conditioned  for  the  faithful 
})erformance  of  the  duties  of  the  office  and  the  payment  of 
all  moneys  received  by  such  officer,  according  to  law  and  the 
ordinances  of  said  city  or  village ; Provided^  however^  that 
in  no  case  shall  the  mayor’s  bond  be  fixed  at  a less  sum  than 
three  thousand  ($3,000);  nor  shall  the  treasurer’s  bond  be 
fixed  at  a less  sum  than  the  amount  of  the  estimated  tax  and 
special  assessments  for  the  current  year — which  bonds  shall 
1)3  filed  with  the  clerk  (except  the  bond  ot  the  clerk,  which 
shall  be  filed  with  the  treasurer). 

77.  Commission — Certificate— Delivery  to  Successors. 

§ 5.  All  officers  elected  or  appointed  under  this  act 
(except  the  clerk,  aldermen  and  mayor,  and  trustees),  shall 
be  commissioned  by  warrant,  under  the  corporate  seal, 
signed  by  the  clerk  and  the  mayor  or  presiding  officer  of  the 
city  council  or  board  of  trustees.  The  mayor  or  president 
of  the  board  of  trustees  shall  issue  a certificate  of  ap- 
pointment or  election,  under  the  seal  of  the  corporation,  to' 
the  clerk  thereof,  and  any  person  having  been  an  officer  of 
the  city  or  village,  shall,  within  five  days  after  notification 
and  request,  deliver  to  his  successor  in  office  all  property, 
books  and  •effects  of  every  description  in  his  possession,  be- 
longing to  the  city  or  village,  or  appertaining  to  his  said 
office ; and  upon  his  refusal  to  do  so,  shall  be  liable  for  all 
the  damages  caused  thereby  and  to  such  penalty  as  may  by 
ordinance  be  prescribed. 

78.  Qualification  of  Officers. 

§ 6.  Ko  person  shall  be  eligible  to  any  office  who  is  not  a 
qualified  elector  of  the  city  or  village,  and  who  shall  not 
have  resided  therein  at  least  one  year  next  preceding  his 
election  or  appointment,  nor  shall  any  person  be  eligible  to 
any  office  who  is  a defaulter  to  the  corporation. 


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79.  Not  Interested  in  Contracts,  Etc. 

§ 7.  No  officer  shall  lie  directly  or  indirectly  interested 
in  any  contract  work,  or  business  of  the  city,  or  the  sale  of 
any  article,  the  expense,  price  or  consideration  of  which  is 
paid  from  the  treasury,  or  by  any  assessment  levied  by  any 
act  or  ordinance;  nor  in  the  purchase  of  any  real  estate  or 
other  property  belonging  to  the  corporation,  or  which 
shall  be  sold  for  taxes  or  assessments,  or  by  virtue  of  legal 
process  at  the  suit  of  said  corporation. 

80.  Bribery — Penalty. 

§ 8.  Every  person  who  shall  promise,  offer  or  give,  or 
cause,  or  aid,  or  abet,  in  causing  to  be  promised,  offered 
or  given,  or  furnish  or  agree  to  furnish,  in  whole  or  in 
[)art,  to  be  promised,  offered  or  given  to  any  member  of 
the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees,  or  any  officer  of  the 
corporation,  after  or  before  his  election  or  appointment  as 
such  officer,  any  moneys,  goods,  rights  in  action,  or  other 
property  or  anything  of  value,  or  any  pecuniary  advantage, 
present  or  prospective,  with  intent  to  inllnence  his  vote, 
opinion,  judgment  or  action  on  any  question,  matter,  cause 
or  proceeding  Avhich  may  lie  then  pending,  or  may  by  laAV 
be  brought  before  him  in  his  official  capacity,  shall,  upon 
conviction,  lie  imprisoned  in  the  penitenti;iry  for  a term 
not  exceeding  tAVo  years,  or  shall  be  lined  not  exceeding 
$5,000,  or  both,  in  the  disrection  of  the  court.  Every  officer 
who  shall  accept  any  such  gift  or  promise,  or  undertaking 
to  make  the  same  under  any  agreement  or  understanding 
that  his  vote,  opinion,  judgment  or  action  shall  be  in- 
llnenced  thereby,  or  shall  be  given  in  any  question,  matter, 
cause,  or  proceeding  then  pending,  or  Avhich  may  by  hxAv 
be  brought  before  him  in  his  official  capacity,  shall,  upon 
(ionviction,  be  disqiialilied  from  holding  any  public  office, 


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trust,  or  api)oiiitnient  uiulor  the  city  or  villaa’e,  and  shall 
forfeit  his  office,  aiul  shall  he  punished  by  imprisonment  in 
the  penitentiary  not  exeeediiio-  two  years,  or  by  a fine  not 
exceeding  |'r),0(K),  or  both,  in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 
Every  person  offiending*  against  either  of  the  provisions  of 
this  section  shall  lie  a competent  witness  against  any  other 
person  offending  in  the  same  transaction,  and  may  be  com- 
])elled  to  appear  and  give  evidence  before  any  grand  jury 
or  in  any  court  in  the  same  manner  as  other  persons;  but 
the  testimony  so  given  shall  not  be  used  in  any  prosecution 
or  proceeding,  civil  or  criminal,  against  the  person  so 
testifying, 

51.  Mayok  tb'c  , Not  to  Hold  Other  Office. 

§ 9.  Xo  mayor,  aldermen,  city  clerk,  or  treasurer,  shall 
hold  anv  other  office  under  the  city  o’overnmeiit  during'  his 

• t.  o <- 

term  of  office. 

52.  Duties  of  Clerk. 

§ 10.  The  clerk  shall  keep  the  corporate  seal,  to  be  pro- 
vided under  the  direction  of  the  city  council  or  board  of 
trustees,  and  all  papers  belonging  to  the  city  or  village ; he 
shall  attend  all  meetings  of  the  city  council  or  board  of 
trustees,  and  keep  a full  record  of  all  its  iiroceedings  in  the 
journal;  and  copies  of  all  papers  duly  filed  in  his  office  and 
transcripts  from  the  journals  and  other  records  and  files  of 
his  office,  certified  by  him  under  the  corporate  seal,  shall  be 
evidence  in  all  courts  in  like  manner  as  if  the  originals  were 
])roduccd. 

83.  Record  of  Ordinances. 

§ 11.  The  clerk  shall  record,  in  a book  to  be  kept  foi* 
that  pur[)ose,  all  ordinances  passed  by  the  city  council  or 
board  of  truste(*s,  and  at  the  foot  of  the  record  of  each  ordi- 


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nance  so  recorded  shall  make  a memorandum  of  the  date  of 
the  passage  and  of  the  publication  or  posting  of  such  ordi- 
nance, which  record  and  memorandum,  or  a certified  copy 
thereof,  shall  be  prima  facie  evidence  of  the  passage  and 
legal  publication  or  posting  of  such  ordinances  for  all  pur- 
poses whatsoever. 

84.  Conservators  op  the  Peace— Powers. 

§ 12.  The  trustees  in  villages,  the  mayor,  aldermen,  and 
the  marshal  and  his  deputies,  policemen  and  watchmen,  in  * 
cities,  if  any  such  be  appointed,  shall  be  conservators  of  the 
peace ; and  all  officers  created  conservators  of  the 
peace  by  this  act,  or  authorized  by  any  ordinance,  shall 
have  power  to  arrest,  or  cause  to  be  arrested,  with  or  with- 
out process,  all  persons  who  shall  break  the  peace,  or  lx? 
found  violating  any  ordinance  of  the  city  or  village,  or  any 
criminal  law  of  the  state,  commit  for  examination, 
and  if  necessary,  detain  such  persons  in  custody  over 
night  or  Sunday  in  the  watch-house,  or  any  other  safe 
place,  or  until  they  can  be  brought  before  the  proper  mag- 
istrate, and  shall  have  and  exercise  such  other  powers,  as 
conservators  of  the  peace,  as  the  city  council  or  board  of 
trustees  may  prescribe.  All  warrants  for  the  violation  of 
ordinances,  and  all  criminal  warrants  to  whomsoever 
directed,  may  be  served  and  executed  within  the  corporate 
limits  of  any  such  city  or  village  by  any  policemen  of  such 
city  or  village ; such  policemen  being  hereby  clothed  with 
all  the  common  law  and  statutory  power  of  constables  for 
such  purposes.  [As  amended  by  act  approved  June  14,  1883, 
In  force  July  1,  1883.  L.  1883,  p.  58.] 

8.5.  Compensation  of  Mayor. 

§ 13.  The  mayor  of  any  city  shall  receive  such  compen- 


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satioii  us  the  city  council  may  by  ordinance  direct,  but  his 
compensation  shall  not  be  chang-ed  during  his  term  of 
office. 

S6.  Compensation  of  Aldermen  and  Trustees. 

§ 14.  The  aldermen  and  trustees  may  receive  such  com- 
pensation for  their  services  as  shall  be  fixed  by  ordinance; 
Provided^  however^  such  compensation  shall  not  exceed  |d 
to  each  alderman  or  trustee  for  each  meeting*  of  the  city 
council,  or  board  of  trustees,  actually  attended  by  him,  and 
no  other  compensation  than  for  attendance  upon  such 
meeting*s  shall  be  allowed  to  any  alderman  or  trustee  for 
any  services  whatsoever.  Such  compensation  shall  not  be 
changed,  after  it  has  been  once  established,  so  as  to  take 
effect  as  to  any  alderman  or  trustee  voting  for  such  change, 
during  his  term  of  office. 

■S7.  Compensation  of  Other  Officers. 

§ 15.  All  other  officers  may  receive  a salary,  fees,  or 
other  comiiensation  to  be  fixed  by  ordinance,  and  after  the 
same  has  been  once  fixed  such  fees  or  compensation  shall 
not  be  increased  or  diminished,  to  tak(‘  efiect  during  the 
term  for  which  any  such  officer  was  elected  or  appointed; 
and  every  such  officer  shall  make  and  return  to  th(>  mayor, 
or  president  of  the  board  of  trustees,  a semi-annual  report, 
verified  by  affidavit,  of  all  such  fees  aud  emoluments  re- 
ceived by  him. 

88,  Administering  Oaths. 

§ K).  The  mayor  of  any  city,  and  the  clerk  of  ain*  city 
or  village,  shall  have  power  to  administer  oaths  and  affi’rma- 
tions  upon  all  lawful  occasions. 


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AETICLE  VII. 

OF  FIN^VNCE. 

80.  Fiscal  Year. 

§ 1.  The  fiscal  year  of  each  city  or  village  organized  un- 
der this  act  shall  commence  at  the  date  established  by  biAV 
for  the  annual  election  of  municipal  officers  therein,  or  at 
such  other  times  as  may  be  fixed  by  ordinance. 

00.  Annual  Appropriation  Ordinance. 

§ 2.  The  city  council  of  cities,  and  board  of  trustees  in 
villages,  shall,  within  the  first  quarter  of  each  fiscal  year, 
pass  an  ordinance,  to  be  termed  the  annual  appropriation 
bill,  in  which  such  corporate  authorities  may  appropriate 
such  sum  or  sums  of  money  as  may  be  deemed  necessary  to 
defray  all  necessary  expenses  and  liabilities  of  such  corpor- 
ation; and  in  such  ordinance  shall  specify  the  objects  and 
purposes  for  which  such  appropriations  are  made,  and  the 
amount  appropriated  for  each  object  or  purpose.  No  fur- 
ther appropriations  shall  be  made  at  any  other  time  within 
such  fiscal  year,  unless  the  proposition  to  make  each  appro- 
priation has  been  first  sanctioned  by  a majority  of  the  legal 
voters  of  such  city  or  village,  either  by  a petition  signed  by 
them,  or  at  a general  or  special  election  duly  called  therefor. 

91.  Limitation — Emergency— Borrowing  Money. 

§ 3.  Neither  the  city  council  nor  the  board  of  trustees,  nor 
any  department  or  officer  of  the  corporation,  shall  add  to 
the  corporation  expenditures  in  any  one  year  anything  over 
and  above  the  amount  provided  for  in  the  annual  appro- 
priation bill  of  that  year,  except  as  is  herein  otherwise 
specially  provided;  and  no  expenditure  for  an  improve- 
ment to  be  paid  for  out  of  the  general  fund  of  the 
corporation  shall  exceed,  in  any  one  year,  the  amount 


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provided  for  such  improvement  in  the  annual  appro- 
priation bill ; Provided^  however^  that  nothing 
herein  contained  shall  prevent  the  city  council  or 
Imard  of  trustees  from  ordering,  by  a two-thirds  vote,  any 
improvement  the  necessity  of  which  is  caused  by  any  cas- 
ualty or  accident  happening  after  such  annual  appropria- 
tion is  made.  The  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  may, 
by  a like  vote,  order  the  mayor  or  the  president  of  the 
board  of  trustees  and  finance  committee  to  borrow  a suffi- 
cient amount  to  provide  for  the  expense  necessary  to.be  in- 
curred in  making  any  improvements, the  necessity,  of  which 
has  arisen  as  is  last  above  mentioned,  for  a space  of  time 
not  exceeding  the  close  of  the  next  fiscal  year — which  sum, 
and  the  interest,  shall  be  added  to  the  amount  authorized 
to  be  raised  in  the  next  general  tax  levy,  and  embraced 
therein.  Should  any  judgment  be  obtained  against  the 
corporation,  the  mayor,  or  president  of  the  board  of  trustees 
and  finance  committee,  under  the  sanction  of  the  city  coun- 
cil or  board  of  trustees,  may  borrow  a sufficient  amount  to 
pay  the  same,  for  a space  of  time  not  exceeding  the  close  of 
the  next  fiscal  year — which  sum  and  interest  shall,  in  like 
manner,  be  added  to  the  amount  authorized  to  l)e  raised  in 
the  general  tax  levy  of  the  next  year,  and  embraced 
therein. 

?)2.  Contracting  Liabilities  Limited. 

§ 4.  Xo  contract  shall  be  hereafter  made  by  the  city 
council  or  board  of  trustees,  or  any  committee  or  member 
thereof;  and  no  expense  shall  be  incurred  by  any  of  the 
officers  of  the  departments  of  the  corporation,  whether  the 
object  of  the  expenditures  shall  have  been  ordered  by  the 
city  council  or  board  of  trustees  or  not,  unless  an  appro- 
priation shall  have  been  previously  made  concerning  such 


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expense,  except  as  herein  otherwise  expressly  provided. 
1)3.  Dutfes  of  Tueasureu. 

§ 5.  The  treasurer  shall  receive  all  moneys  belongino^  to  the 
corporation,  and  shall  keep  his  books  and  accounts  in  such 
manner  as  may  be  prescribed  l)y  ordinance,  and  such  books 
and  accounts  shall  always  be  subject  to  the  inspection  of 
any  member  of  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees. 

1)4.  Separate  Accounts. 

§ G.  He  shall  keep  a separate  account  of  each  fund  or 
approjiriation,  and  the  debts  and  credits  belonging  thereto. 
1)5.  Receipts. 

§ 7.  He  shall  give  every  person  paying  money  into  the 
treasury  a receipt  therefor,  specifying  the  date  of  payment, 
and  upon  Avhat  account  paid;  and  he  shall  also  file  copies 
of  such  receipts  with  the  clerk,  at  the  date  of  his  monthly 
reports. 

1)(>.  Monthly  Statements  Warrants- -Vouchers — Register. 

• 

§ <S.  The  treasurer  shall,  at  the  end  of  each  and  every 
month,  and  oftener,  if  required,  render  an  account  to  tlie 
city  council  or  lioard  of  trustees,  or  such  officer  as  may  be 
designated  by  ordinance  (under  oath)  showing  the  state  of 
the  treasury  at  the  date  of  such  account,  and  the  balance  of 
money  in  the  treasury.  He  shall  also  accompany  such  ac- 
counts Avith  a statement  of  all  moneys  received  into  the 
treasury,  and  on  Avhat  account,  together  Avith  all  Avarrants 
redeemed  and  paid  by  him;  Avhich  said  Avar  rants,  Avith  any 
and  all  vouchers  held  by  him,  shall  be  deliA^ered  to  the 
clerk,  and  filed  Avith  his  said  account  in  the  clerk’s  ofllce, 
upon  every  day  of  such  settlement.  He  shall  return  all 
warrants  paid  by  him  stamped  or  marked  “pidd.”  He  shall 
also  keep  a register  of  all  Avarrants  redeemed  and  paid. 


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4f) 

which  shall  describe  such  warrants,  and  show  the  date, 
ainonnt,  number,  the  fund  from  which  paid,  the  name  of  the 
})erson  to  whom  and  when  paid. 

t)7.  DErosiT  OF  Funds — Separate  from  His. 

§ h.  The  treasurer  may  be  required  to  keep  all  moneys 
in  his  hands  belongdno'  to  the  corporation,  in  such  place  or 
places  of  deposit  as  may  be  designated  by  ordinance;  Pro- 
rlded,  hoioever^  no  such  ordinance  shall  be  passed  by  which 
the  custody  of  such  money  shall  be  taken  from  the  treasurer 
and  deposited  elsewhere  than  in  some  regularly  organized 
bank,  nor  Avithout  a bond  to  be  taken  from  such  bank,  in 
such  penal  sum  and  Avith  such  security  as  the  city  council 
or  board  of  trustees  shall  direct  and  approve,  sufficient  to 
save  the  corporation  from  any  loss ; but  such  penal  sun) 
shall  not  be  less  than  the  estimated  receipts  for  the  current 
year  from  taxes  and  special  assessments  leAued,  or  to  be  lev- 
ied, by  the  corporation.  Thci  treasurer  shall  keep  all 
moneys  belonging  to  the  corporation  in  his  hands  separate 
and  distinct  from  his  oAvii  moneys,  and  he  is  hereby  ex- 
pressly prohibited  from  using,  either  directly  or  indirectly, 
the  corporation  money  or  Avarraiits  in  his  custody  and 
keeping,  for  his  oAvn  use  and  benefit,  or  that  of  any  other 
person  or  persons  Avhomsoever ; and  any  violation  of  this 
provision  shall  subject  him  to  immediate  removal  from 
office  by  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees,  Avho  are  here- 
by authorized  to  declare  said  office  vacant  ; and  in  Auhich 
case  his  successor  shall  be  aiipointed,  Avho  shall  hold  his  of- 
fice for  the  remainder  of  the  term  unexpired  of  such  officer 
so  removed. 

08.  Treasurer’s  Annual  Report — Purlication. 

§ 10.  The  treasurer  shall  report  to  the  city  council  or 
board  of  trustees,  as  often  as  required,  a full  and  detailed 


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4() 

^ _ 

aeconnt  of  all  receipts  and  expenditures  of  the  corporation, 
as  shown  by  his  books,  up  to  the  time  of  said  report;  and 
he  shall,  annually,  between  the  first  and  tenth  of  April,  make 
out  and  tile  with  the  clerk  a full  and  detailed  account  of  all 
such  receipts  and  expenditures,  and  of  all  his  transactions 
as  such  treasurer,  during  the  preceding  fiscal  year,  and 
shall  show  in  such  account  the  state  of  the  treasury  at  the 
close  of  the  fiscal  year ; which  account  the  clerk  shall  im- 
mediately cause  to  be  published  in  a newspaper  printed  in 
such  city,  if  there  be  one,  and  if  not,  then  by  posting  the 
same  in  a public  place  in  the  clerk’s  office. 

Oy.  Warrants. 

§ 11.  All  warrants  draAvn  upon  the  treasurer  must  be 
signed  by  the  mayor  and  countersigned  by  the  elerk,  stat- 
ing the  particular  fund  or  appropriation  to  which  the  same 
is  cfiargeable,  and  the  person  to  whom  payable;  and  no 
money  shall  be  otherwise  paid  than  upon  such  warrants 
so  drawn,  except  as  hereinafter  provided. 

100.  Special  Assessment  Funds  Kept  Separate. 

§ 12.  All  moneys  received  on  any  special  assessment 
shall  be  held  by  the  treasurer  as  a special  fund,  to  be  ap- 
plied to  the  payment  of  the  improvement  for  Avhich  the 
assessment  was  made,  and  said  money  shall  be  used  for  no 
other  purpose  whatever,  unless  to  reimburse  such  corpora- 
tion for  money  expended  for  such  improvement. 

101 . City  Collector — His  Duties. 

§ 18.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  collector,  when  one  is 
appointed,  to  preserve  all  warrants  which  are  returned  into 
his  hands,  and  he  shall  keep  such  books  and  his  accounts  in 
such  manner  as  the  city  council  may  prescribe.  Such  war- 


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rants,  books,  and  all  papers  pertainiiiof  to  his  office,  shall 
at  all  times  be  open  to  the  inspection  of  and  sid^jeet  to 
the  examination  of  the  mayor,  city  clerk,  any  mejnber  of 
the  council,  or  committee  thereof.  He  shall  weekly,  and 
oftener  if  required  by  the  council,  pay  over  to  the  treasurer 
all  moneys  collected  by  him  from  any  source  whatever, 
taking  such  treasurer’s  receipt  therefor,  which  receipt  he 
shall  immediately  tile  with  the  city  clerk ; but  the  city 
clerk  shall,  at  the  time,  or  on  demand,  give  such  tax  col- 
lector a copy  of  any  such  receipt  so  fil'cd. 

102.  He  Shall  Report,  Etc.,  Publication. 

§ 14.  He  shall  make  a report,  in  writing,  to  the  council, 
or  any  officer  designated  b}^  the  council,  of  all  moneys  col- 
lected by  hinij  the  account  Avhereon  collected,  or  of  any 
other  matter  in  connection  with  his  office,  Avhen  required 
by  the  couneil  or  by  any  ordinance  of  the  city.  He  shall 
also,  annually,  betAveen  the  first  and  tenth  of  April,  file 
with  the  clerk  a statement  ot  all  the  mpneA^s  collected  by  him 
during  the  year,  the  particular  Avarrant,  special  assessment 
or  account  on  Avhich  collected,  the  balance  of  moneys  un- 
(‘ollected  on  all  Avarrants  in  his  hands,  and  the  balance  re- 
maining uncollected  at  the  time  of  the  return  on  all  war- 
rants Avhich  he  shall  liaA^e  returned,  during  the  preceding 
fiscal  year,  to  the  cit}'  clerk.  The  city  clerk  shall  publish 
or  post  the  same,  as  hereinbefore  required  to  be  done  in 
regard  to  the  annual  report  of  the  treasurer.  [See  § PS.] 

103.  Not  to  Detain  Money — Penalty. 

§ 15.  The  collector  is  hereby  expressly  jirohibited  from 
keeping  the  moneys  of  the  city  in  his  hands,  or  in  the  hands 
of  any  person  or  corporation,  to  his  use,  beyond  the  time 
which  may  be  prescribed  for  the  payment  of  the  same  to 


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the  treasurer,  and  any  violation  of  this  provision  will  snh- 
ject  him  to  immediate  removal  from  office. 

104.  Examination  of  His  Books — Paying  Ovek. 

§ 16.  All  the  city  collector’s  papers,  books,  warrants 
and  vouchers  may.  be  examined  at  anytime  by  the  mayor  or 
clerk  or  any  member  of  the  city  council;  and  the  collector 
shall  every  two  weeks  or  oftener,  if  the  city  council  so  di- 
rect, pay  over  all  money  collected  by  him  from  any  person 
or  persons,  or  associations,  to  the  treasurer,  taking  his  re- 
ceipt therefor  in  duplicate,  one  of  which  receipts  he  shall 
at  once  file  in  the  office  of  the  clerk. 

105.  City  Comptrollek — His  Powers  and  Duties. 

§ 17.  dlie  city  comptroller  (if  there  shall  be  any  city  comp- 
troller appointed,  if  not,  then  the  clerk)  shall  exercise  a 
general  supervision  over  all  the  officers  of  the  corporation 
charged  in  any  manner  with  the  receipt,  collection  or  dis- 
bursement of  corporation  revenues,  and  the  collection  and 
i-eturn  of  all  such  revenues  into  the  treasuiy.  He  shall 
liave  the  charge,  custody  and  control  of  all  deeds,  leases, 
warrants,  vouchers,  books  and  papers  of  any  kind,  the  cus- 
tody and  control  of  which  is  not  herein  given  to  any  other 
officers;  and  he  shall,  on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  May, 
in  each  year,  and  before  the  annual  appropriations  to  be 
made  by  the  city  council  or  the  board  of  trustees,  submit 
to  the  city  council  or  the  board  of  trustees  a report  of  his 
estimates,  as  nearly  as  may  be,  of  moneys  necessary  to  de- 
fray the  expenses  of  the  corporation  during  the  current 
fiscal  year.  Fie  shall,  in  said  report,  class  the  different  ob- 
jects and  branches  of  expenditures,  giving,  as  nearly  as  may 
be,  the  amount  rcxjuired  for  each;  and  for  the  purpose  of 


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niakiiio*  such  report,  he  is  authorized  to  require  of  all  of- 
Hcers  their  stateineut  of  the  condition  and  expenses  of  their 
respective  offices  or  departments,  Avith  any  proposed  im- 
proA'enients  and  the  probable  exi)ense  thereof,  all  contracts 
made  and  untinished,  and  the  amount  of  any  and  all  unex- 
pended appropriations  of  the  precedino*  year,  • He  shall,  in 
such  re])ort,  sIioav  the  nggregiiie  income  of  the  preceding’ 
tiscal  year,  from  all  sources,  the  amount  of  liabilities  out- 
standing' upon  which  interest  is  to  be  paid,  the  bonds  and 
debts  payable  during  the  year,  Avhen  due  and  Avhen  paya- 
ble; and  in  such  report  he  shall  give  such  other  informa- 
tion to  the  council  or  board  of  trustees  as  he  may  deem 
necessary,  to  the  end  that  the  city  council  or  board  of 
trustees  may  fully  understand  the  money  exigencies  and 
demands  upon  the  corporation  for  the  current  year. 

106.  CouNcn-  May  Define  the  Duties — Transfer  of  Clerk’s  Fi- 
nancial Duties. 

§ 1^^.  When  there  shall  be  appointed  in  any  city  a comi)- 
troller,  the  city  council  may,  by  ordinance  or  resolution, 
confer  iqion  him  such  poAvers,  and  provide  for  the  perform- 
ance of  such  duties  by  him,  as  the  city  council  shall  deem 
necessary  and  proper;  and  all  the  provisions  of  this  act  re- 
lating to  the  duties  of  city  clerk,  or  the  poAvers  of  city 
clerk  in  connection  Avith  the  tinances,  the  treasurer  and 
collector,  or  the  receipt  and  disbursements  of  the  moneys 
of  such  city,  sliall  be  exeriused  and  performed  by  such 
comptroller,  if  one  there  shall  be  appointed;  and  to  that 
end  and  jiurpose,  wherever  in  this  act  heretofore  the  Avord 
“clerk”  is  used,  it  shall  be  held  to  mean  “comptroller”; 
and  wherever  the  “clerk’s  office”  is  referred  to,  it  shall  be 
held  to  mean  “comptroller’s  oftice.” 


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107.  Record  of  Bonds  Issued  by  City. 

§ 19,  The  comptroller,  when  there  shall  be  a comptrol- 
ler, and  if  not,  then  the  clerk,  shall  keep  in  his  office  in  a 
book  or  books  kept  expressly  for  that  purpose,  a correct 
list  of  all  the  outstandino:  bonds  of  the  city,  showing  the 
number  and  amount  of  each,  for  and  to  whom  the  said 
bonds  are  issued,  and  when  any  city  bonds  are  purchased, 
or  paid,  or  cancelled,  said  book  or  books  shall  show  the 
fact;  and  in  his  annual  report  he  shall  describe,  particularly 
the  bonds  sold- during  the  year,  and  the  terms  of  sale,  with 
each  and  every  item  of  expense  thereof. 

GENERAL  PROVISIONS. 

108.  Further  Duties  may  be  Required.  ^ 

§ 20.  The  collector  and  treasurer,  and  all  other  officers 
connected  with  the  receipt  and  expenditure  of  11101103%  shall 
perform  such  other  duties,  and  be  subject  to  such  other 
rules  and  regulations  as  the  cit}^  council  or  board  of  trus- 
tees may,  from  time  to  time,  by  ordinance,  provide  and  es- 
tablish. 

109.  Appeal  to  Finance  Committee. 

§ 21.  In  the  adjustment  of  accounts  of  the  collector  or 
treasurer  with  the  clerk  (or  comptroller,  if  there  be  one), 
there  shall  be  an  appeal  to  the  finance  committee  of  the 
council  or  board  of  trustees,  whose  decision  in  all  matters 
of  controvers}^  arising  between  said  officers  shall  be  binding 
unless  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  shall  otherwise 
direct  and  provide. 

110.  Who  may  Appoint  Subordinates. 

§ 22.  The  comptroller  (if  there  shall  l>e  one),  the  clerk, 
treasurer  and  collector,  shall,  several  1}%  appoint  such  vari- 


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ons  clerks  rikI  subordinates  in  their  respective  offices  as  the 
city  council  or  board  of  trustees  may  authorize,  and  shall 
be  held,  severally,  responsible  tor  the  fidelity  of  all  persons 
so  appointed  by  them. 

111.  Fohkign  Insurance  Companiks — License,  Etc. — Penalties. 

§ 23.  All  corporations,  companies  or  associations  not 
incorporated  under  the  laws  of  this  state,  engaged  in  any 
city  in  afiecting  fire  insurance,  shall  pay  to  the  treasurer 
the  sum  of  $2  upon  the  $100  of  the  net  receipts  by  their 
agenc}^  in  such  city,  and  at  that  rate  upon  the  amount  ot 
of  all  premiums  Avdiich,  during  the  half  year  ending  on  ev- 
ery first  day  of  July  and  January,  shall  have  been  received 
for  any  insurance  eftected  or  agreed  to  be  effected  in  the 
city  or  village,  b}^  or  with  such  corporation,  companies  or 
associations,  respectively.  Every  person  who  shall  act  in 
any  city  or  village  as  agent,  or  otherwise,  for  or  on  behalf 
of  any  such  corporation,  company,  or  association,  shall,  on 
or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  July  and  January,  in  each 
year,  render  to  the  comptroller  (if  any  there  be,  if  not,  to 
the  clerk),  a full,  true,  and  just  account,  verified  by  his  oath 
of  all  premiums  which,  during  the  half  year  ending  on 
every  first  day  of  July  and  January  preceding  such  report, 
shall  have  been  received  by  him,  or  any  other  person  for 
him,  in  behalf  of  any  such  corporation,  company  or  associ- 
ation, and  shall  specify  in  said  account  the  amounts  re- 
ceived for  fire  insurance.  Such  agents  shall  also  pay  over 
to  the  treasurer,  at  the  time  of  rendering  the  aforesaid  ac- 
count, the  amount  of  rates  for  which  the  company  or  com- 
panies represented  by  them  are  severally  chargeable  by 
virtue  hereof.  If  such  account  be  not  rendered  on  or  be- 
fore the  day  hereinbefore  designated  for  that  purpose,  or 


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if  the  said  rates  shall  reniain  unpaid  after  that  date,  it  shall 
be  unlawful  for  any  corporation,  company  or  assocuation 
so  in  default  to  transact  any  business  of  insurance  in  any 
such  city  or  village,  until  the  said  requisitions  shall  have 
been  fully  complied  with;  but  this  provision  shall  not  re- 
lieve any  company  from  the  payment  of  any  risk  that  may 
lie  taken  in  violation  hereof.  Any  person  or  persons  vio- 
lating Jiny  of  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  subject 
to  indictment,  and  upon  conviction  thereof,  in  any  court  of 
competent  jurisdiction,  shall  be  lined  in  any  sum  not  ex- 
ceeding $1,000,  or  imprisonment  not  exceeding  six  months, 
or  both,  in  the  direction  of  the  court.  Said  rates  may  also 
be  recovered  of  such  corporation,  company  or  association, 
or  its  agent,  by  action  in  the  name  and  for  the  use  of  any 
such  city  or  village,  as  for  money  had  and  received  for  its 
use;  Provided^  that  tliis  section  shall  only  apply  to  such 
cities  and  villages  as  have  an  organized  lire  department,  or 
maintain  some  organization  for  the  prevention  of  lires. 


ARllCLE  VIII. 


OF  THE  ASSESSMENT  AND  COLLECTION  OF  T.4XES. 

112.  Okdinance  Levying  Tax. 

§ 1 . The  city  council  in  cities,  and  board  of  trustees  in 
villages,  may  assess  and  collect  taxes  for  corporate  pur- 
poses, in  the  following  manner:  The  city  council  or  board 

of  trustees,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall,  on  or  before  the  third 
(3rd  ) Tuesday  in  Septemher,  in  each  year,  ascertain  the  to- 
tal amount  of  appropriations  for  all  corporate  purposes 
legally  made,  and  to  be  collected  from  the  tax  levy  of  that 
fiscal  year,  and,  by  an  ordinance  specifying  in  detail  the  pur- 
poses for  which  such  appropriations  are  made,  and  the  sum 


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or  amount  a[)propriated  for  each  purpose,  respectively, levy 
the  amount  so  ascertained  upon  all  the  property  subject  to 
taxation  within  the  city  or  village,  as  the  vsame  is  assessed 
and  equalized  for  state  and  county  purposes  for  the  current 
year.  A certified  copy  of  such  ordinance  shall  be  filed 
with  the  county  clerk  of  the  proper  county,  whose  duty  it 
.shall  be  to  ascertain  the  rate  per  cent,  which  upon  the  total 
valuation  of  all  property  subject  to  taxation  within  the 
city  or  village,  as  the  same  is  assessed  and  equalized  for 
state  and  county  purposes,  will  produce  a net  amount  not 
less  than  the  amount  so  directed  to  be  levied;  and  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  county  clerk  to  extend  such  tax,  in  a 
separate  column,  upon  the  book  or  books  of  the  collector 
or  collectors  of  the  state  and  county  taxes,  within  such 
city  or  village ; Provided^  i\\^  aggregate  amount  of  taxes 
levied  for  any  one  year,  exclusive  of  the  amount  levied  for 
the  payment  of  bonded  indebtedness  or  the  interest  thereon, 
shall  not  exceed  the  rate  of  two  (2)  per  centum,  upon  the 
aggregate  valuation  of  all  property  within  such  city  or  vil- 
lage,  subject  to  taxation  therein,  as  the  same  was  equalized 
for  state  and  county  taxes  of  the  preceding  year.  (As 
amended  by  act  approved  May  28,  1879.  In  force  July  1, 
1879;  1.  1879,  p.  (hk) 

113.  Manner  of  Collecting. 

§ 2.  The  tax  so  assessed  shall  be  collected  and  enforced 
in  the  same  manner  and  by  the  same  officers  as  state  and 
county  taxes,  and  shall  be  paid  over  by  the  officers  collect- 
ing the  same  to  the  treasurer  of  the  city  or  village. 

114.  Time  of  Paying  Over, 

§ 8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  officer  collecting  such 
tax  to  settle  Avith  and  pay  over  to  such  treasurer,  as  often  . 


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as  once  in  two  weeks  from  the  time  he  shall  commence  the 
collection  thereof,  all  such  taxes  as  he  shall  then  have  col- 
lected, till  the  whole  tax  collected  shall  be  paid  over. 

115.  When  Tax  Levied  for  PAiiTicuiiAR  Purpose. 

§ 4.  Whenever  any  city  or  village  is  required  to  levy  a 
tax  for  the  payment  of  any  particular  debt,  appropriation 
or  liability  of  the  same,  the  tax  for  such  purpose  shall 
be  included  in  the  total  amount  assessed  by  the  city  coun- 
cil or  board  of  trustees,  and  certified  to  the  county  clerk  as 
aforesaid ; but  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  shall 
determine,  in  the  ordinance  making  such  assessment,  what 
})roportion  of  such  total  amount  shall  be  applicable  to  the 
payment  of  such  particular  debt,  appropriation  or  liability; 
and  the  city  or  village  treasurer  shall  set  apart  such  pro- 
portion of  the  tax  collected  and  paid  to  him  for  the  pay- 
ment of  such  particular  debt,  appropriation  or  liability, and 
shall  not  disburse  the  same  for  any  other  purpose  until 
such  debt,  appropriation  or  liability,  shall  have  been  dis- 
charged. 

116.  Uniformity. 

§ 5.  All  taxes  levied  or  assessed  by  any  city  or  village, 
except  special  assessments  for  local  improvements,  shall  be 
uniform  upon  all  taxable  property  and  persons  within  the 
limits  of  the  city,  and  no  property  shall  be  exempt  there- 
from other  than  such  property  as  may  be  exempt  from  tax- 
ation under  the  constitution  and  general  law  of  the  state. 

AR^nCLE  IX. 

SPECIAL  ASSESSMENTS  FOR  LOCAL  IMPROVEMENTS. 

117.  Powers  Conferred. 

§ 1.  That  the  corporate  authorities  of  cities  and  villages 


CITY  CHARTER. 


{ire  herelw  vested  with  power  to  make  local  improvements 
by  special  assessment  or  by  special  taxiition,  or  both,  of 
contiguous  property,  or  general  taxation,  or  otherwise,  as 
they  shiill  l)v  ordinance  prescribe. 

118.  Ordinance  for  Improvement. 

§ 2.  When  any  such  city  or  village  shall,  by  ordinance, 
provide  for  the  making  of  {iny  local  improvement,  it  shall, 
by  the  same  ordinance,  prescribe  whether  the  same  shall 
be  made  by  special  assessment  or  by  special  taxation  of 
contiguous  property,  or  general  taxation,  or  both. 

119.  When  Property  is  Taken,  Etc. 

§ 3.  Should  said  ordinance  provide  for  improvements 
which  require  the  taking  or  damiiging  of  property,  the 
proceeding  for  making  just  compensation  therefor  shall  be 
{IS  follows: 

120.  Petition. 

§ 4.  Whenever  any  such  ordinance  shall  be  passed  by 
the  legislative  authority  of  any  such  city  or  village,  for 
the  making  of  any  improvement  mentioned  in  the  first  sec- 
tion of  this  iict,  or  any  other  loc{il  improvement  that  such 
city  or  village  is  authorized  to  make,  the  making  of  which 
will  require  that  private  property  be  tiiken  or  damaged  for 
public  use,  such  city  or  village  shall  file  a petition  in  som(‘ 
court  of  record  of  the  county  in  which  such  city  is  situat(*d, 
in  the  name  of  the  city,  praying  tluit  “the  just  compens{i- 
tion  to  be  made  for  private  property  to  be  taken  or  dam- 
aged for  the  improvement  or  purpose  specified  in  such  or- 
dinance shall  lie  ascertained  by  a jury.” 

121.  Form  of  Petition. 

§ 0.  Such  petition  shall  contain  a copy  of  tin*  said  ordi- 


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nance,  certified  by  the  clerk,  under  the  corporate  seal ; a 
reasonably  accurate  description  of  the  lots,  parcels  of  land 
and  property  which  will  be  taken  or  dainag-ed,  and  the 
names  of  the  owners  and  occupants  thereof,  so  far  as  known 
to  the  board  or  officer  filing  the  petition,  and  where  any 
knoAYii  owners  are  non-residents  of  the  state,  stating  the 
fact  of  such  non-residence. 

122.  Summons — ^Publication— Notice. 

§ 6.  Upon  the  filing  of  the  petition  aforesaid,  a sum- 
mons, which  may  be  made  returnable  upon  any  day  in  term 
time,  shall  be  issued  and  served  upon  the  persons  made 
parties  defendant,  as  in  cases  in  chancery.  And  in  case 
any  of  them  are  unknown,  or  reside  out  of  this  state,  the 
the  clerk  of  the  court,  upon  an  affidavit  being  filed  showing' 
such  fact,  shall  cause  publication  to  be  made  in  some  news- 
paper printed  in  his  county,  or,  if  there  be  no  newspaper 
published  in  his  county,  then  in  some  newspaper  published 
in  this  state  containing  notice  of  the  pendency  of  such  pro- 
ceeding, the  parties  thereto,  the  title  of  the  court,  and  the 
time  and  place  of  the  return  of  the  summons  in  the  case, 
and  the  nature  of  said  proceeding';  such  publication  to  be 
made  for  tour  weeks  consecutively,  at  least  once  in  each 
week,  the  first  of  which  shall  be  at  least  thirty  days  before 
the  return  day  of  such  summons.  Notices  so  given  by  pub- 
lication shall  be  sufficient  to  authorize  the  court  to  hear 
and  determine  the  suit,  as  though  all  parties  had  been  sued 
1>3^  their  proper  names  and  had  been  personally  served.  [As 
amended  by  act  approved  and  in  force  March  30th,  1874.] 

123.  Heautno — JUKY. 

§ 7.  Upon  the  return  of  said  summons,  or  as  soon  there- 
after as  the  business  of  the  court  will  permit,  the  said  court 


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shall  proceed  to  the  hearing  of  such  petition,  and  shall  im- 
panel a jury  to  ascertain  the  just  compensation  to  be  paid 
to  all  sucli  owners  and  occupants  aforesaid;  but  if  any  de- 
fendant ort  party  in  interest  S'liall  - demand,  or  the  court 
shall  deem  it  proper,  separate  juries  may  be  impaneled  as 
to  tbe  compensation  or  damages  to  be  paid  to  any  one  or 
more  of  such  defendants  or  parties  interested.  . [As 
amended  by  act  approved  and  in  force  March  30th,  1874.] 

124.  Jury  to  Ascertain  Compensation — Admitting  Other  Parties. 

§ 8.  Such  jury  shall  also  ascertain  the  just  compensa- 
tion to  be  paid  to  any  person  claiming  an  interest  in  any 
lot,  parcel  of  land  or  property,  which  may  be.  taken  or 
damaged  by  such  improvement,  whether  or  not  such  per- 
vson’s  name,  or  such  lot,  parcel  of  land,  or  other  property, 
is  mentioned  or  described  in  such  petition : Provided^  such 
persons  shall  first  be  admitted  as  a party  defendant  to  said 
suit  by  such  court,  and  shall  file  a statement  of  his  interest 
in  and  description  of  the  lot,  parcel  of  land,  or  other  prop- 
erty in  respect  to  which  he  claims  componsatiob. 

125.  Viewing  Premises — Ownership,  Etc. 

. § 9.  The  court  may,  upon  the  motion  of  such  city  or 
village,  or  of  any  person  claiming  such  compensation,  di- 
rect that  said  jury  (under  the  charge  of  an  officer  of  the 
court)  shall  view  the  premises  which  it  is  claimed  by  any 
party  to  said  proceeding  will  be  taken  or  damaged  by  said 
improvement,  and  in  any  case,  where  there  is  no  satisfac- 
tory evidence  given  to  the  jury  as  to  the  ownership  of,  or 
as  to  the  extent,  of  the  interest  of  any  defendant  in  the 
property  to  be  taken  or  damaged,  the  jury  may  return 
their  verdict  as  to  the  compensation  or  damage  to  be  paid 
for  the  property  or  part  of  property  to  be  taken  or  dam- 


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aged,  and  for  the  entire  interest  therein.  [As  amended  by 
act  approved  and  in  force  March  30,  1874. 

126.  Judgment — New  Parties — Further  Proceedings. 

§ 10.  Upon  the  return  of  such  verdict,  the  court  shall 
order  the  same  to  be  recorded,  and  shall  enter  such  judg- 
ment or  decree  thereon  as  the  nature  of  the  case  may  re- 
quire. The  court  shall  continue  or  adjourn  the  cause,  from 
time  to  time,  as  to  all  occupants  and  owners  named  in  such 
petition  who  shall  not  have  been  served  with  process,  or 
brought  in  by  publication,  and  shall  order  a new  summons 
to  issue  and  new  publication  to  be  made ; and  upon  such 
occupant  or  owners  being  brought  into  court,  shall  impanel 
a jury  to  ascertain  the  compensation  so  to  be  paid  to  such 
defendant  or  defendants,  for  private  property  taken  or 
damaged;  and  like  proceeding*  shall  be  had  for  such  pur- 
pose as  hereinbefore  provided  for  the  ascertaining  of  com- 
pensation to  other  owners. 

127.  Powers  OP  Court  . 

§ 11.  The  court  shall  have  power,  at  an}'  time,  upon 
proof  that  any  such  owner  or  owners  named  in  such  peti- 
tion, who  has  not  been  served  with  process,  has  ceased  to 
be  such  owner  or  owners  since  the  filing  of  such  petition, 
to  impanel  a jury  and  ascertain  the  just  compensation  to 
be  made  for  the  property  (or  the  damage  thereto)  which 
had  been  owned  by  the  person  or  persons  so  ceasing  to  own 
the  same;  and  the  court  ma}^,  upon  the  finding  or  findings 
of  any  jury  or  juries,  or  at  any  time  during  the  course  of 
such  proceedings,  enter  such  order,  rule,  judgment  or  de- 
cree as  the  nature  of  the  case  may  require, 

128.  Ownership — Further  Powers  of  Court. 

§ 12.  No  delay  in  making  an  assessment  or  eompensa- 


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tioii  shall  be  occasioned  by  any  doubt  or  contest  which  may 
arise  as  to  the  ownership  of  the  property,  or  any  part 
thereof,  or  as  to  the  interest  of  the  respective  owners  or 
claimants,  but  in  such  case  the  court  may  impanel  a jury 
and  ascertain  the  entire  compensation  or  damage  that 
should  be  paid  for  the  property,  or  part  of  property,  and 
the  entire  interests  of  all  parties  therein,  and  may  require 
adverse  claimants  to  interplead  so  as  to  fully  determine 
their  rights  and  interests  in  the  compensation  so  ascer- 
tained. And  the  court  may  make  such  order  as  may  be 
necessary  in  regard  to  the  deposit  or  payment  of  such  com- 
pensation. 

129.  Persons  under  Disability. 

§ 13.  When  it  shall  appear,  from  said  petition  or  other- 
wise, at  any  time  during  the  proceedings  upon  such  peti- 
tion, that  any  infant,  or  insane  or  distracted  person,  is  in- 
terested in  any  property  that  is  to  be  taken  or  damaged, 
the  court  shall  appoint  a guardian,  ad  litem^  for  such  infant 
or  insane  or  distracted  person,  to  appear  and  defend  for 
him,  her  or  them;  and  the  court  shall  make  such  order  or 
decree  as  it  shall  deem  proper  to  protect  and  secure  the  in- 
terest of  such  infant,  or  insane  or  distracted  person,  in  such 
property,  or  the  compensation  which  shall  be  awarded 
therefor. 

130.  Judgment — Effect— Appeal,  Etc. 

§ 14.  Any  final  judgment  or  judgments,  rendered  by 
said  court,  upon  any  finding  or  findings  of  any  jury  or  ju- 
ries, shall  be  a lawful  and  sufficient  condemnation  of  the 
land  or  property  to  be  taken  upon  the  payment  of  the 
amount  of  such  finding  as  hereinbefore  provided.  It  shall 
be  final  and  conclusive  as  to  the  damages  caused  by  such 


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improvement,  unless  such  judgment  or  judgments  shall  be 
appealed  from ; but  no  appeal  or  writ  of  error  upon  the 
same  shall  delay  proceedings  under  said  ordinance,  if  such 
city  or  village  shall  deposit,  as  directed  by  the  court,  the 
amount  of  the  judgment  and  costs,  and  shall  file  a bond  in 
the  court  in  which  such  judgment  was  rendered,  in  a sum 
to  be  fixed  and  with  security  to  be  approved  by  the  judge 
of  said  court,  which  shall  secure  the  payment  of  any  future 
compensation  which  may  at  any  time  be  finally  awarded  to 
such  party  so  appealing  or  suing  out  such  writ  of  error, 
and  his  or  her  costs. 

131.  OuDEii  Foil  Possession.  . 

§ 15.  The  court,  upon  proof  that  said  just  compensation 
so  found  by  the  jury  has  been  paid  to  the  person  entitled 
thereto,  or  has  been  deposited  as  directed  by  the  court  (and 
bond  given,  in  case  of  any  appeal  or  writ  of  error),  shall 
enter  an  order  that  the  city  or  village  shall  have  the  right, 
at  any  time  thereafter,  to  take  possession  of  or  damage  the 
property,  in  respect  to  which  such  compensation  shall  have 
been  so  paid  or  deposited,  as  aforesaid.  ^ 

132.  When  Improvement  Made  by  General  Tax. 

§ 16.  When  the  ordinance  under  which  said  improve- 
ment is  ordered  to  be  made  shall  provide  that  such  im- 
provement shall  be  made  by  general  taxation,  the  cost  of 
such  improvement  shall  be  added  to  the  general  appropria- 
tion bill  of  such  city  or  village,  and  shall  be  levied  and 
collected  with  and  as  part  of  the  general  taxes  of  such  city 
or  village.  * ’ 

133.  Special  Taxation.  . . 

§ 17.  When  said  ordinance  under  which  said  local  im- 
provement shall  be  ordered  shall  provide  that  such  im- 


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provemeiit  shall  be  made  by  special  taxation  of  contiguous 
property,  the  same  shall  be  levied,  assessed  and  collected 
in  the  way  provided  in  the  sections  of  this  act  providing 
'for  the  mode  of  making,  levying,  assessing  and  collecting 
special  assessments. 

SPECIAL  ASSESSMENT. 

134.  How  Made. 

§ 18.  When  the  ordinance  under  which  said  local  im- 
provement is  ordered  to  be  made  shall  provide  that  such  im- 
provement shall  be  wholly  or  in  part  made  by  special  assess- 
ment, the  proceedings  for  the  making  such  special  assess- 
ment shall  be  in  accordance  with  the  [sections  of  this  act 
[article]  from  18  to  51  inclusive. 

135.  Ordinance  for — Sidewalks — Owner’s  Rights. 

§ 19.  Whenever  such  local  improvements  are  to  be  made 
wholly  or  in  part  by  special  assessment,  the  said  council  in 
cities,  or  board  of  trustees  in  villages,  shall  pass  an  ordi- 
nance to  that  effect,  specifying  therein  the  nature,  charac- 
ter, locality  and  description  of  such  improvement:  Provid- 
ed^ that  whenever  any  such  ordinance  shall  provide  only 
, for  the  building  or  renewing  of  any  sidewalk,  the  owner 
of  any  lot  or  piece  of  land  fronting  on  such  sidewalk  shall 
be  allowed  fifteen  days  after  the  time  at  which  said  ordi- 
nance shall  take  effect  in  which  to  build  or  renew  such 
sidewalk  opposite  his  land,  and  thereby  relieve,  the  same 
from  assessment:  Provided^  that  the  work  so  to  be  done 
shall  in  all  respects  conform  to  the  requirement  of  such  or- 
dinance. 

136.  Estimate  OF  Cost. 

§ 20.  The  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  shall  appoint 


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three  of  its  members,  or  any  other  three  competent  persons, 
who  shall  make  an  estimate  of  the  cost  of  the  improvement 
contemplated  by  such  ordinance,  includiiig*  labor,  materials 
and  all  other  expenses  attending  the  same,  and  the  cost  of 
making  and  levying  the  assessment,  and  shall  report  the 
same  in  writing  to  said  council  or  board  of  trustees. 

137.  Order  pgr  Proceedings  in  Court. 

§ 21.  On  such  report  being  made,  and  approved  by  the 
council  or  board  of  trustees,  as  the  case  may  be,  it  may  or- 
der a petition  to  be  filed  by  such  officer  as  it  shall  direct,in 
the  county  court  of  his  county,  for  proceedings  to  assess 
the  cost  of  such  iniprovement  iji  the  manner  provided  in 
this  act. 

138.  Petition  to  Court. 

§ 22.  The  petition  shall  be  in  the  name  of  the  corpora- 
tion, and  shall  recite  the  ordinance  for  the  proposed  im- 
provement and  the  report  of  such  commission,  and  shall 
pray  that  the  cost  of  such  improvement  may  be  assessed  in 

the  manner  prescribed  by  law. 

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139.  Appointment  of  Commissioners— Oath. 

§ 23.  Upon  the  filing  of  such  petition  the  court  shall 
appoint  three  competent  persons  as  commissioners,  who 
shall  take  and  subscribe  an  oath,  in  substance  as  follows, 
to  wit:  ' 

State  of  Illinois,  ) „„ 

County,  ] 

We,  the  undersigned  commissioners,  appointed  by  the  county  court 

of county,  to  assess  the  cost  of (here  state  in  general  terms 

the  improvement),  do  solemnly  swear  (or  affirm,  as  the  case  may  be),  that 
we  will  a true  and  impartial  assessment  make  of  the  cost  of  said  improve- 
ment upon  the  city  (or  village)  of. , and  the  property  benefitted  by 

such  improvement,  to  the  best  of  our  ability,  and  according  to  law. 


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140.  Duty  of  Commissioners. 

§ 24.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  commissioners  to  ex- 
amine the  locality  where  the  improvement  is  proposed  to 
he  made,  and  the  lots,  blocks,  tracts  and  parcels  of  land 
that  will  be  specially  benefitted  thereby,  and  to  estimate 
what  proportion  of  the  total  cost  of  such  improvement  will 
be  of  benefit  to  the  public  and  what  proportion  thereof 
will  be  of  benefit  to  the  property  to  be  benefitted,  and  ap- 
portion the  same  between  the  city  or  village  and  such 
property,  so  that  each  shall  bear  its  relative  equitable  pro- 
portion; and  having  found  said  amounts,  to  apportion  and 
assess  the  amount  so  found  to  be  of  benefit  to  the  property 
upon  the  several  lots,  blocks,  tracts  and  parcels  of  land  in 
the  proportion  in  which  they  will  be  severally  benefitted 
by  such  improvement:  Provided^  that  no  lot,  block,  tract 
or  parcel  of  land  shall  be  assessed  a greater  amount  than  it 
will  be  actually  benefitted:  And,  provided y further,  that  it 
shall  not  be  necessary  for  said  commissioners  to  examine 
the  locality  except  where  the  ordinance  provides  for  the 
opening,  widening  or  improvement  of  streets  and  alleys. 
[As  amended  by  act  approved  and  in  force  March  30,  1874. 

[§  25,  repealed  by  act  approved  April  25,  1873. 

141,  Assessment  Roll — Return. 

§ 2G.  They  shall  also  make  or  cause  to  be  made  an  as- 
sessment roll,  in  which  shall  appear  the  names  of  the  own- 
ers, so  far  as  known,  a description  of  each  lot,  block,  tract 
or  parcel  of  land,  and  the  amount  assessed  as  special  bene- 
fits thereto,  and  in  which  they  shall  set  down  as  against 
the  city  or  village  the  amount  they  shall  have  found  as 
liublic  benefit,  and  certify  such  assessment  roll  to  the  court 
))y  which  they  were  appointed,  at  least  ten  days  before  the 


OTY  of  JOLIET. 

first  day  of  the  term  at  which  a final  hearing  thereon  shall 
be  had,  [As  amended  by  act  approved  and  in  force  March 
30,  1874. 

142.  Notice  BY  Mail,  Posting  AND  Publication.  , » 

§ 27.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  such  commissioners  to 
give  notice  of  such  assessment,  and  at  the  term  of  court  at 
which  a final  hearing  thereon  will  be  had,  in  the  following 
manner:  .« 

First — They  shall  send  by  mail  to  eahh  owner  of  prem- 
ises assessed,  whose  name  and  place  of  residence  is  known 
to  them,  a notice,  substantially  in  the ’following  form: 

Mr Your  (here  give  a short  description  of  the  premises) 

is  assessed  S. . . .for  public  improvement.  The  assessment  roll  will  be  re- 
turned to  the  . . . term  of  the  county  court  of  . , . county. 


(Here  give  date).  - 

Commissioners. 

Second — They  shall  cause  at  least  ten  days  notice  to  be 
given,  by  posting  notices  in  at  least  four  public  places  in 
such  city  or  village,  two  of  which  shall  be  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  such  proposed  improvement;  and  when  a daih' 
newspaper  is  published  in  such  city  or  village,  by  publish- 
ing the  same  at  least  five  consecutive  days  in  such  daih' 
newspaper,  or  if  no  daily  newspaper  is  published  in  such 
city  or  village  and  a weekly  newspaper  is  published  there- 
in, then,  at  least  once  in  each  week,  for  two  consecutive 
weeks,  in  such  weekly  newspaper,  or  if  no  daily  or  weekly 
newspaper  is  published  in  such  city  or  village,  then  in  a 
newspaper  published  in  the  county  in  which  such  city  or 
village  is  situated.  The  notice  may  be  substantially  as  fol- 
lows : 


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SPECIAL  ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  interested,  that  the  city  council  (or 

board  of  trustees,  as  the  case  may  be),  of having  ordered 

that  (here  insert  the  description  and  nature  of  improvements  substatially 

as  in  ordinance)  have  applied  to  the  county  court  of county  for  an 

assessment  of  the  cost  of  said  improvements,  according  to  benefits;  and  an 
assessment  thereof  having  been  made  and  returned  to  said  court,  the  final 

hearing  thereon  will  be  had  at  the term  of  said  court,  commencing 

on  the day  of , A.  D.,  18....  All  persons  desiring 

may  then  and  there  appear  and  make  their  defense. 


Here  give  date.  

Commissioners. 

[As  amended  by  act  approved  April  25,  1873.  In  force 
July  1,  1873. 

143.  Proof  op  Notice. 

§ 28.  On  or  before  the  final  hearing,  the  affidavit  of  one 
or  more  of  the  commissioners  shall  be  filed  in  said  court, 
stating  that  they  have  sent  or  caused  to  be  sent  by  mail, 
to  the  owners  whose  premises  have  been  assessed,  and 
whose  name  and  place  of  business  are  known  to  them,  the 
notice  hereinbefore  required  to  be  sent  by  mail,  to 
owners  of  premises  assessed.  They  shall  also  cause  to 
be  filed  the  affidavit  of  the  person  who  shall  have  posted 
the  notices  required  by  this  act  to  be  posted,  setting  forth 
when  and  in  what  manner  the  same  were  posted.  Such  af- 
fidavits shall  be  received  prirna  facie  evidence  of  a com- 
pliance with  this  act  in  regard  to  giving  such  notices. 
They  shall  also  file  a certificate  of  publication  of  said  no- 
tice in  like  manner  as  is  required  in  other  cases  of  publica- 
tion of  notices.  [As  amended  by  act  approved  April  25, 
1873;  in  force  July  1,  1873. 


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144.  Continuance  when  Notice  not  in  Time.  _ 

§ 29.  If  ten  days  shall  not  have  elapsed  between  the 
tirst  publication  or  the  putting  up  of  such  notices  and  the 
tirst  day  of  the  next  term  of  such  court,  the  hearing  shall 
be  continued  until  the  next  term  of  court. 

145.  Objections — Judoment  by  Default. 

§ 30.  Any  person  interested  in  any  real  estate  to  be  ef- 
fected by  such  assessment,  may  appear  and  file  objections 
to  such  report,  and  the  court  may  make  such  order  in  re- 
gard to  the  time  of  filing  such  objections  as  may  be  made 
in  cases  at  law  in  reg'ard  to  the  time  of  filing  pleas.  As  to 
all  lots,  blocks,  tracts  and  parcels  of  land  to  the  assess- 
ment of  which  objections  are  not  filed  within  the  time  or- 
dered by  the  court,  default  may  be  entered,  and  the  assess- 
ment confirmed  by  the  court. 

14(>.  Heauing — Jury. 

§ 31 . On  the  hearing,  the  report  of  the  commissioners 
shall  be  competent  evidence,  and  either  party  may  intro- 
duce such  other  evidence  as  may  tend  to  establish  the  right 
of  the  matter.  The  hearing  shall  be  conducted,  as  in  other 
cases  at  law,  and  if  it  shall  appear  that  the  premises  of  the 
objector  are  assessed  more  or  less  than  they  will  be  bene- 
fitted,  or  more  or  less  than  their  proiiortionate  share  of  the 
cost  of  the  improvement,  the  jury  shall  so  find,  and  also  find 
the  amount  for  which  such  premises  ought  to  be  assessed, 
and  judgment  shall  be  rendered  accordingly. 

147.  Precedence. 

§ 32.  The  hearing'  in  all  cases  arising  under  this  act  shall 
have  precedence  over  all  other  cases  in  such  court,  except 
criminal  cases. 


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14S,  Court  may  Modify,  Etc.,  the  Assessment. 

§ 83;  The  court  before  Avhicli  any  .such  proceeding  may 
be  pending,  shall  have  anthorit}^  at  any  time  before  final 
adjournment  [judgment],  to  modity,  alter,  change,  annul 
or  confirm  any  assessment  returned,  as  aforesaid,  or  cause 
any  such  assessment  to  be  recast  by  the  same  commission- 
ers whenever  it  shall  be  necessary  for  the  attainment  of 
justice,  or  may  appoint  other  commissioners  in  the  place 
of  all  or  any  of  the  commissioners  first  appointed,  for  the 
purpose  of  making  such  assessment,  or  modifying  or  alter- 
ing, changing  or  recasting  the  same,  and  may  take  all  such 
proceedings  and  make  all  such  orders  as  may  be  necessary 
to  make  a true  and  just  assessment  of  the  cost  of  such  im- 
))roA  ement  according  to  the  principles  of  this  act,  and  may 
from  time  to  time,  as  may  be  necessary,  continue  the  ap- 
plication for  that  purpose  as  to  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the 
premises, 

149.  Judgment  Seyeral — Apueal,  etc. — Lien, 

§ 34.  4'he  judgment  of  the  court  shall  have  the  effect  of 
a seveml  judgment  as  to  each  tract  or  parcel  ot  land  assessed, 
and  any  appeal  from  such  judgment  or  writ  of  error  shall 
not  invalidate  or  delay  the  judgment  except  as  to  the  prop- 
erty concerning  which  the  appeal  or  writ  of  error  is  taken. 
Such  judgment  shall  be  a lien  upon  the  property  assessed, 
from  the  date  thereof  until  payment  shall  he  made. 

150.  Judgment  Certified  to  City  Clerk — Filing — Warrant. 

§ 35.  The  clerk  of  the  court  in  which  said  judgment  is 
rendered  shall  certify  the  assessment  roll  and  judirment  to 
the  clerk  of  such  city  or  village,  or  if  there  has  been  an  ap- 
peal or  writ  of  error  taken  on  any  part  of  such  judgment, 
then  he  shall  certify  such  part  of  the  judgment  as  is  not  in- 


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eluded  in  such  appeal  or  writ  of  error.  The  clerk  of  the 
city  or  village  shall  file  such  certificate  in  his  office  and  issue 
a warrant  for  the  collection  of  such  assessment. 

151.  Form  of  Warratjt. 

§ 36.  The  warrant  in  all  cases  of  assessments  under  this 
act  shall  contain  a copy  of  such  certificate  of  the  judgment, 
describing  the  lots,  blocks,  tracts  or  parcels  of  land  assessed, 
and  the  respective  amounts  assessed  on  each  lot,  block, tract 
or  parcel  of  land,  and  shall  be  delivered  to  the  officer  author- 
ized to  collect  such  special  assessments.  Such  warrant 
shall  give  sufficient  authority  to  collect  the  assessments 
therein  specified. 

152.  Collector’s  Notice — Form  op. 

§ 37.  The  collector  receiving  such  warrant  shall  imme- 
diately give  notice  thereof  by  publishing  such  notice  in  one 
or  more  newspapers  in  such  city  or  village,  if  such  news- 
paper is  there ; and  if  there  is  no  such  newspaper,  then  by 
posting  four  copies  thereof  in  public  places  along  the  line 
of  the  proposed  improvement.  Such  notice  may  be  substan- 
tially in  the  following  form  : 

SPECIAL  ASSESSMENT  NOTICE.  SPECIAL  WARRANT,  NO. 

Public  notice  is  hereby  given  that  the  (here  insert  the  title  of  court)  has 
rendered  judgment  for  a special  assessment  upon  property  benefitted  by 
the  following  improvement  (here  insert  the  character  and  location  of  the 
improvement  in  general  terms)  as  will  more  fully  appear  from  the  certified 
copy  of  the  judgment  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  city  (or  village) 

of ; that  a warrant  for  the  collection  of  such  assessments  is  in 

the  hands  of  the  undersigned.  All  persons  interested  are  hereby  notified  t(> 
call  and  pay  the  amount  so  asseseed,  at  the  collector’s  office.  (Here  insert 
location  of  office)  within  thirty  days  from  the  date  hereof. 

' Dated  this  day  of ,A.D.,  18.. 


Collector. 


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lo3.  Manner  op  Collecting — Entry  of  Payment. 

§ 38.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  collector  into  whose 
hands  the  warrant  shall  so  come,  as  far  as  practicable,  to 
call  upon  all  persons  resident  within  the  corporation  whose 
names  appear  on  the  assessment  roll,  or  the  occupants  of  the 
property  assessed,  and  personally,  or  by  written  or  printed 
notice  left  at  his  or  her  usual  place  of  abode,  inform  them 
of  such  assessment,  and  request  payment  of  the  same.  Any 
such  collector  omitting  so  to  do  shall  be  liable  to  a penalty 
of  $10  for  every  such  omission,  but  the  validity  of  the 
special  assessment,  or  the  right  to  apply  for  and  obtain 
judgment  for  any  such  special  [assessmentj  shall  not  be 
affected  by  such  omission.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such 
collector  to  write  the  word  “paid”  opposite  each  tract  or 
lot  on  which  the  assessment  is  paid,  together  with  the 
name  and  post  office  address  of  the  person  making  the 
payment,  and  date  of  payment. 

154.  Report  OP  Delinquent  List  to  County  Collector — Evidence 
— Defense. 

§ 39.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  collector  of  special  as- 
sessments, within  such  time  as  the  city  council  or  board  of 
trustees  may  by  ordinance  provide,  to  make  a report  in 
writing — to  the  general  officer  of  the  county  authorized, 
or  to  be  designated  b}^  the  general  revenue  law  of  this  state, 
to  apply  for  judgment  and  sell  lands  for  taxes  due  the 
county  and  state — of  all  the  lands,  town  lots  and  real  prop- 
ert}'  on  which  he  shall  have  been  unable  to  collect  special 
assessments,  with  the  amount  of  special  assessments  due 
and  unpaid  thereon,  together  with  his  warrant,  or  with  a 
brief  description  of  the  nature  of  the  warrant  or  warrants 
received  by  him  authorizing  the  collection  thereof;  which 
report  shall  be  accom])anicd  by  the  oath  of  the  collector 


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that  the  list  is  a correct  return  and  report  of  the  lands, 
town  lots  and  real  property  on  which  the  special  assess- 
ments levied  by  authority  of  the  city  of (or  village’ 

of as  the  case  may  be),  remain  due  and  unpaid; 

that  he  is  unable  to  collect  the  same  or  any  part  thereof 
and  that  he  has  given  the  notice  required  by  law  that  said 
warrants  had  been  received  by  him  for  collection.  Said 
report,  when  so  made  shall  hG prlma  facie  evidence  that  all 
the  forms  and  requirements  of  the  law  in  relation  to  mak- 
ing said  return  have  been  complied  with,  and  that  the 
special  assessments  mentioned  in  said  report  are  due  and 
unpaid.  And,  upon  the  application  for  judgment  upon 
such  assessment,  no  defence  or  objection  shall  be  made  or 
heard  which  might  have  been  interposed  in  the  proceeding* 
for  the  making  of  such  assessment,  or  the  application  for 
the  confirmation  thereof. 

155.  ArcLrcATroN  fou  Judoment — Wei  at  Law  Governs. 

§ 40.  When  said  general  officer  shall  receive  the  report 
provided  for  in  the  preceding  section,  he  shall  at  once  pro- 
ceed to  obtain  judgment  against  said  lots,  parcels  of  land, 
and  property  for  said  special  assessments  remaining  due 
and  unpaid  at  the  same  time  and  in  the  same  manner  as  is 
or  may  be  by  law  provided  for  obtaining*  judganent  against- 
lands  for  taxes  due  and  unpaid  the  county  and  state;  and 
shall  in  the  same  manner  proceed  to  sell  the  same  for  the 
said  special  assessments  remaining  due  and  unpaid.  In  ob- 
taining* said  judgment  and  making*  said  sale,  the  said  offi- 
cer shall  be  governed  by  the  general  revenue  laws  of  this 
state,  except  when ' otherwise  provided  herein.  No  appli- 
cation for  judgment  against  lands  for  unpaid  special  assess- 
ments shall  be  made  at  a time  different  from  the  annual 
ap[>lication  for  judgment  against  lands,  upon  which  gen- 


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oral  taxes  remain  due  and  unpaid.  The  application  for 
judo-nient  upon  delinquent  special  assessments  in  each  year 
shall  include  only  such  special  assessments  as  shall  have 
been  returned  as  delinquent  to  the  county  collector,  on  or 
before  the  first  day  of  April,  in  the  year  in  which  such  ap- 
plication is  made.  [As  amended  by  act  approved  June  1<S, 
1883.  In  force  July  1,  1883.  L.  1883,  p.  58. 

15(>.  Return  ok  Sales — Redemption. 

§ 41.  After  making  said  sales,  the  list  of  lots,  parcels 
of  lands  and  property  sold*  thereat  shall  be  returned  to  the 
office  of  the  county  clerk,  and  redemption  may  be  made  UvS 
provided  for  by  the  general  revenue  law  of  this  state, 

157.  Penalty  when  Lands  are  Sold  for  Tax,  Etc. 

§ 42.  If  the  collector  shall  receive  any  moneys  for  taxes 
or  assessments,  giving  a receipt  therefor  for  any  land  or 
parcel  of  land,  and  afterwards  return  the  same  as  unpaid 
to  the  state  officers  authorized  to  sell  lands  for  taxes,  or 
shall  receive  the  same  after  making  such  return,  and  the 
same  be  sold  for  tax  or  assessment  which  has  been  so  paid 
and  receipted  for  by  himself  or  his  clerks,  he  and  his  bond 
shall  be  liable  to  the  holder  of  the  certificate  given  to  the 
purchaser  at  the  sale,  for  double  the  amount  of  the  face  of 
the  certificate,  to  be  demanded  in  two  years  from  the  date 
of  the  sale,  and  recovered  in  any  court  having  jurisdiction 
of  the  amount;  and  the  city  or  village  shall,  in  no  case,  be 
liable  to  the  holder  of  such  certificate. 

158.  Paying  Over — Compensation. 

§ 43.  The  collector  or  collectors  and  the  general  officer 
aforesaid,  to  whom  the  said  warrant  shall  be  re  turned, shall 
pay  over  to  the  city  or  village  treasurer  to  which  it  shall 
belong,  all  moneys  colleeted  by  them,  respectively,  upon  or 


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by  virtue  of  such  warrant,  or  upon  any  sale  for  taxes  or 
otherwise,  at  such  time  or  times  and  in  such  maimer  as 
shall  be  prescribed  by  ordinance,  and  shall  be  allowed  such 
compensation  for  their  services  in  the  collection  of  such 
assessment  as  the  ordinance  of  the  city  or  village  may  pro- 
vide, except  when  such  compensation  is  fixed  by  general 
law. 

159.  General  Revenue  Laws  Apply. 

§ 44.  The  general  revenue  laws  of  this  state,  in  refer- 
ence to  proceedings  to  recover  judgments  for  delinquent 
taxes,  the  sale  of  property  thereon,  the  execution  of  cer- 
tificates of  sale  and  deeds  thereon,  the  force  and  effect  of 
such  sales  and  deeds,  Jind  all  other  laws  in  relation  to  the 
enforcement  and  collection  of  taxes  and  redemption  from 
tax  sales,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided,  shall  be 
applicable  to  proceedings  to  collect  such  special  assess- 
ment. 

160.  City  or  Village  May  Buy  in. 

§ 45.  Any  city  or  village  interested  in  the  collection  of 
any  tax  or  special  assessment,  may  beeome  a purchaser  at 
aii}^  sale  of  real  or  personal  property  to  enforce  the  collec- 
tion of  the  same,  and  may,  by  ordinance,  authorize  and 
make  it  the  duty  of  one  or  more  city  or  village  officers  to 
attend  such  sales,  and  bid  thereat  in  behalf  of  the  corpora- 
tion. 

161.  When  Asskssmemt  Set  Aside — New  Assessment. 

§ 46,  If  any  assessment  shall  be  annulled  by  the  city 
council  or  board  of  trustees,  or  set  aside  by  any  court,  a 
new  assessment  may  be  made  and  returned,  and  like  notice 
given  and  proceedings  had,  as  herein  required  in  relation  to 
the  first;  and  all  parties  in  interest  shall  have  the  like 


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riofhts,  and  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  and  court 
shall  perforin  like  duties  and  have  like  power  in  relation  to 
an\^  subsequent  assessment,  as  are  hereby  given  in  relation 
to  the  tirst  assessment. 

1(>2.  Supplemental  Assessments. 

§ 47.  If,  in  any  case,  the  first  assessment  prove  insufii- 
eient,  a second  may  be  made  in  the  same  manner,  as  nearly 
as  may  be,  and  so  on,  until  sufficient  moneys  shall  have 
been  realized  to  pay  for  such  public  improvement.  If  too 
large  a sum  shall,  at  any  time,  be  raised,  the  excess  shall 
be  refunded  ratably  to  those  by  whom  it  was  paid. 

163.  New  Assessments  Against  Delinquents — Lien — Limitation. 

§ 48.  If,  from  any  cause,  any  city  or  village  fail  to  col- 
lect the  whole  or  any  portion  of  any  special  assessment 
which  may  be  levied,  which  shall  not  be  cancelled  and  set 
aside  by  the  order  of  any  court  for  any  public  improve- 
ment authorized  to  be  made  and  paid  for  by  special  assess- 
ment, the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  may,  at  any 
time  within  five  years  after  the  confirmation  of  the  origi- 
nal assessment,  direct  a new  assessment  to  be  made  upon 
the  delinquent  property  for  the  amount  of  such  deficiency, 
and  interest  thereon  from  the  date  of  such  original  assess- 
ment— which  assessment  shall  be  made,  as  near  as  may  be, 
in  the  same  manner  as  is  herein  prescribed  for  the  first  as- 
sessment. In  all  cases  where  partial  payment  shall  have 
been  made  on  such  former  assessment,  they  shall  be  cred- 
ited or  allowed  on  the  new  assessment  to  the  property  for 
which  they  were  made,  so  that  the  assessment  shall  be 
* equal  and  impartial  in  its  results.  If  such  new  assessment 
prove  ineffectual,  either  in  whole  or  in  part,  the  city  coun- 
cil or  board  of  trustees  may,  at  any  time  within  said  period 


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of  five  years,  order  a third,  and  so  on,  to  be  levied  in  the 
same  manner  and  for  the  same  purpose,  and  it  shall  consti- 
tute no  legal  objection  to  such  assessment  that  the  property 
may  have  changed  hands,  or  been  incumbered,  subsequent 
to  the  date  of  the  original  assessment,  it  being  the  true  in- 
tent and  meaning  of  this  section  to  make  the  cost  and  ex- 
pense of  all  public  improvements,  to  be  paid  for  by  a spec- 
ial assessment,  a charge  upon  the  property  assessed  there- 
for, for  the  full  period  of  five  years,  from  the  confirmation 
of  the  original  assessment,  and  for  such  longer  period  as 
may  be  required  to  collect,  in  due  course  of  law,  any  new 
assessment  ordered  within  that  period. 

104.  Contracts  Payable  from  Assessments. 

§ 49.  All  persons  taking  any  contracts  with  the  city  or 
village,  and  who  agree  to  be  paid  from  special  assessments, 
shall  have  no  claim  or  lien  upon  the  city  or  village  in  any 
event,  except  from  the  collections  of  the  special  assessments 
made  for  the  work  contracted  for. 

105.  How  Contracts  Let — ^Approval. 

§ 50.  All  contracts  for  the  making  of  any  public  im- 
provement, to  be  paid  for  in  whole  or  in  part  by  a special 
assessment,  and  any  work  or  other  public  improvement, 
when  the  expense  thereof  shall  exceed  $500,  shall  be  let  to 
the  lowest  responsible  bidder,  in  the  manner  to  be  f)re- 
scribed  by  ordinance — such  contracts  to  be  approved  by 
the  mayor  or  presiclent  of  the  board  of  trustees : Provided^ 
however^  any  such  contract  may  be  entered  into  by  the 
proper  oflicer  without  advertising  for  bids,  and  without 
such  approval,  by  a vote  of  two-thirds  of  all  the  aldermen 
or  trustees  elected. 


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166.  Lien. 

§51.  All  special  assessments  levied  by  any  city  or  vil- 
lage under  this  act,  shall,  from  the  date  of  assessment,  be  a 
lien  upon  the  real  estate  upon  which  the  same  may  be  im- 
posed, and  such  lien  shall  continue  until  such  special  as- 
sessments are  paid.  And  the  same  proceedings  may  be  re- 
sorted to  by  the  collector,  upon  any  warrant  or  order  issued 
or  made  for  the  collection  of  special  assessments,  as  in  the 
ease  of  the  collection  of  state  and  county  taxes  under  the 
general  laws  of  the  state. 

167.  Collection  by  Suit. 

§ 52.  At  any  time  after  the  same  becomes  due,  it  shall 
and  may  be  lawful  for  any  collector  therefor  to  commence 
suit  in  any  court  of  record,  in  the  corporate  name  of  such 
city  or  village,  against  any  person  or  persons,  for  the  total 
amount  of  special  assessments  which  such  person  or  persons 
are  liable  lor  the  payment  of.  Such  siu’t  shall  be  com- 
menced by  petition,  and  shall  state  the  several  amounts  of 
the  special  assessments  sought  to  be  recovered,  and  give  a 
a general  description  of  the  warrant  or  warrants  issued  for 
the  collection  thereof.  Upon  the  filing  of  the  petition  a 
.summons  shall  be  issued,  served  and  returned  as  in  other 
suits  in  such  court.  Upon  the  return  of  such  summons 
duly  served,  the  court  shall  forthwith  proceed  to  the  hear- 
ing of  said  petition  without  formal  pleadings,  and  may  ren- 
der judgment  for  all  or  any  part  of  the  special  assessments, 
as  the  right  and  justice  of  the  case  may  require.  The  orig- 
inal, or  a certified  copy  (by  the  clerk  under  the  corporate 
seal,)  of  such  warrant  or  warrants  and  list  or  lists,  or  so 
much  thereof  as  refers  to  the  special  assessments  sought  to 
be  recovered,  shall  be  prima  facie  evidence  of  the  right  of 
said  collector  to  a judgment  in  favor  of  such  corporation. 


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Execution  shall  issue  on  such  judgment  as  in  other  cases, 
hut  such  execution  may  be  first  levied  upon  and  collected 
from  any  personal  property  of  the  defendant;  or  the 
court,  ill  which  such  proceedings  were  had,  may,  upon  com- 
plaint of  the  city  or  village,  issue  a scire  facias  against  the 
person  or  persons  liable  for  such  payment,  to  show  cause 
Avhy  execution  should  not  issue  ag’ainst  him  or  them  for  the 
amount  of  such  assessment;  and  if,  upon  the  return  of  such 
scwe facias^  good  cause  is  not  shown  why  execution  should 
not  issue,  the  court  may  award  execution  against  such  per- 
son or  persons  in  the  usual  form  ot  execution  upon  judg- 
ments at  law. 

168.  Supplemental  Petition  to  Assess  Benefits  in  Condemnation 
Case. 

§ 53.  Whenever  any  city  or  village  shall  apply  to  any 
court  for  the  purpose  of  making  just  compensation  for 
property  taken  or  damaged  by  such  proceedings  as  are  au- 
thorized by  this  act,  such  city  or  village  may  file  in  the 
same  proceeding  a supplemental  petition,  praying  the 
court  to  cause  that  an  assessment  be  made  for  the  purpose 
of  raising-  the  amount  necessary  to -pay  the  compensation 
and  damages  which  may  be  or  shall  have  *been  awarded  for 
the  property  taken  or  damaged,  with  costs  of  the  proced- 
ing.  The  said  court  shall  have  power,  at  any  time  after 
such  supplemental  petition  shall  have  been  filed,  to  ap- 
point three  commissioners  to  make  such  assessment,  and  to 
ascertain,  as  near  as  may  be,  the  costs  incurred  to  the  time 
of  such  appointment,  and  the  probable  further  costs  of  the 
proceedings,  including  therein  the  estimated  costs  of  mak- 
ing and  collecting  such  assessment,  and  shall  direct  such 
costs  to  be  included  by  such  commissioners  in  making  said 
assessment.  Like  proceedings  in  making  said  assessment 


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shall  be  had,  and  the  assessment  shall  be  made,  collected 
and  enforced  in  the  same  manner,  as  near  as  may  be,  as  is 
provided  in  this  article  in  other  cases.  [As  amended  in 
act  approved,  and  in  force,  March  30,  1874. 

169.  Adoption  of  this  Article. 

§ 54.  Any  city  or  incorporated  town  or  village  may,  if 
it  shall  so  determine  by  ordinance,  adopt  the  provisions  of 
this  article  without  adopting  the  whole  of  this  act;  and 
Avhere  it  shall  have  so  adopted  this  article,  it  shall  have 
'the  right  to  take  all  proceedings  in  this  article  provided 
for,  and  have  the  benefit  of  all  the  provisions  hereof. 

ARTICLE  X. 


( MISCELLANEOUS  PROVISIONS . ) — AVATER. 

170.  Water — Borrow  Money. 

§ 1.  The  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  shall  have  the 
pOAver  to  provide  for  a supply  of  Avater  by  the  boring  and 
sinking  of  artesian  Avells,  or  by  the  construction  and  regu- 
lation of  Avells,  pumps,  cisterns,  reserA^oirs  or  AA^ater  Avorks, 
and  to  boiT-OAV  money  therefor,  and  to  authorize  any  person 
or  private  corporation  to  construct  and  maintain  the  same 
at  such  rates  as  may  be  fixed  by  ordinance,  and  for  a period 
not  exceeding  thirty  years;  also  to  prevent  the  unnecessary 
Avaste  of  water;  to  prevent  the  pollution  of  the  Avater,  and 
injuries  to  such  wells,  pumps,  cisterns,  reservoirs  or  Avater 
Avorks. 

171.  Acquiring  Property  for  Water  Works-  Jurisdiction  over. 
§ 2.  For  the  purpose  of  establishing  or  supplying  water 

Avorks,  any  city  or  village  may  go  beyond  its  territorial 
limits  and  may  take  hold  and  acquire  property  liy  purchase 


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or  otherwise ; shall  have  power  to  take  and  condemn  all 
necessary  lands  or  property  therefor,  in  the  manner  pro- 
vided for  the  taking  or  injuring  private  property  for  pub- 
lic uses;  and  the  jurisdiction  of  the  city  or  village  to  pre- 
vent or  punish  any  pollution  or  injury  to  the  stream  or 
source  of  water,  or  to  such  water  works,  shall  extend  live 
miles  beyond  its  corporate  limits,  or  so  far  as  such  water 
works  may  extend. 

172.  Regulations — Rates,  Taxation,  Ftc. 

§ 3.  The  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  shall  have 
power  to  make  all  needful  rules  and  regulations  concern- 
ing the  use  of  water  supplied  by  the  water  works  of  said 
city  or  village,  and  to  do  all  acts  and  make  such  rules  and 
regulations  for  the  construction,  completion,  management 
or  control  of  the  water  works,  and  for  the  levying  and 
collecting  of  an}-  water  taxes,  rates  or  assessments,  as  the 
city  council  or  board  of  trustees  may  deem  necessary  and 
expedient;  and  such  water  taxes,  rents,  rates  or  assess- 
ments may  be  levied  or  assessed  upon  any  lot  or  parcel  of 
ground  having  a building  or  buildings  thereon,  which  shall 
abut  or  join  any  street,  avenue  or  alley  in  such  city  or  vil- 
lage through  which  the  distributing  pipes  of  such  water 
works  (if  any)  of  said  city  or  village  are  or  may  be  laid, 
which  can  be  conveniently  supplied  with  water  from  said 
pipes:  Provided^  [whether]  the  water  shall  be  used  on  such 
lot  or  parcel  of  ground  or  not;  and  the  same,  when  so  lev- 
ied or  assessed,  shall  become  a continuing  lien  or  charge 
upon  such  lot  or  parcel  of  ground,  building  or  buildings, 
situated  thereon,  and  such  lien  or  charge  may  be  collected 
or  enforced  in  such  manner  as  the  city  council  may,  by  or- 
dinance prescribe.  And  the  corporate  authorities  may 
levy  a general  tax  for  the  construction  and  maintenance  of 


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such  water  works,  and  appropriate  money  therefor. 

173,  Tax-payers  May  Enforce  Rights  in  Name  op  City. 

§ 4.  A suit  may  be  brought  by  any  tax-payer,  in  the 
name  and  for  the  benefit  of  the  city  or  village,  against  any 
person  or  corporation  to  recover  any  money  or  property 
belonging  to  the  city  or  village  or  for  any  money  which 
may  have  been  paid,  expended,  or  released  without  author- 
ity of  law:  Provided.,  that  such  tax-payer  shall  file  a bond 
for  all  costs,  and  be  liable  for  all  costs  in  case  the  city  or 
village  be  cast  in  the  suit,  and  judgment  shall  be  rendered 
accordingly. 

174.  Maps — Approval  of. 

§ 5.  The  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  shall  have 
power  to  provide,  by  ordinance,  that  any  map,  plat,  or 
subdivision  of  any  block,  lot,  sub-lot,  or  part  thereof,  or  of 
any  piece  or  parcel  of  land,  shall  be  submitted  to  the  city 
council  or  board  of  trustees,  or  to  some  officer  to  be  desig- 
nated by  such  council  or  board  of  trustees,  for  their  or 
his  approval  ; and  in  such  cases  no  such  map,  plat  or  sub- 
division shall  be  entitled  to  record  in  the  proper  county  or 
have  any  validity  until  it  shall  have  been  so  approved, 

175.  Inhabitants  Competent  as  Jurors,  Etc. 

§ 6,  No  person  shall  be  an  incompetent  judge,  justice 
or  juror,  by  reason  of  his  being  an  inhabitant  or  freeholder 
in  said  city  or  village,  in  any  action  or  proceeding  in 
which  said  city  or  village  may  be  a party  in  interest.  • 

176,  Population — Census. 

§ 7.  Whenever  in  this  act  any  provision  thereof  is  based 
upon  the  number  of  inhabitants  [the  number  of  inhabi- 
tants] of  the  city  or  village  shall  be  determined  -by  refer- 


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ence  to  the  latest  census  taken  by  authority  of  the  United 
States  or  this  state,  or  of  such  city  or  village;  and  it  shall 
])e  the  duty  of  the  secretary  of  state,  upon  the  publication 
of  any  state  or  United  States  census,  to  certify  to  each. city 
or  village  the  number  of  inhabitants,  as  shown  by  such 
census.  Any  city  or  village  may,  by  ordinance,  provide 
for  the  taking  of  a census  of  the  population  thereof,  in  or- 
der to  determine  the  number  of  such  population  for  any 
and  all  purposes  of  this  act.  And  the  several  courts  in 
this  state  shall  take  judicial  notice  of  the  population  of 
{iny  city  or  village,  as  the  same  may  appear  from  the  latest 
federal,  state,  city  or  village  census  so  taken. 

177.  Municipal  Year.  t 

§8.  The  term  “municipal  year”  shall  be  construed  to 
mean  the  period  elapsing  between  the  regular  annual  elec- 
tions unless  otherwise  provided  by  ordinance. 

178.  City  or  Village  Need  not  Give  an  Appeal  Bond. 

§ 9.  When  in  any  suit  the  city  or  village  prays  an  ap- 
peal from  the  judgment  of  any  court  of  this  state  to  a 
higher  court,  it  shall  not  be  required  to  furnish  an  appeal 
bond. 


STATUTES 


RELATING  TO  CITIES  AND  VILLAGES. 


ACTIONS  TO  RECOVER  FINES  AND  PENALTIES. 

an  act  entitled  “an  act  in  regard  to  suits  by  incorporated  cities  and  villages,  and 
to  enforce  penalties  and  recover  fines  for  violating  the  ordinances  thereof.” 
[Approved  May  31, 1879.  In  force  July  1,  1879.] 

179.  Suits — How  Brought,  Etc. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  all  actions  to  re- 
cover any  fine,  or  to  enforce  any  penalty,  under  any  ordi- 
nance of  any  city  or  village  in  this  state,  shall  be  brought 
in  the  corporate  name  of  the  city  or  village,  as  plaintiff, 
and  no  prosecution,  recovery  or  acquittal,  for  the  violation 
of  any  such  ordinance  shall  constitute  a defense  to  any 
other  prosecution  of  the  same  party,  for  any  other  violation 
of  any  such  ordinance,  although  the  different  causes  of  ac- 
tion existed  at  the  same  time,  and,  if  united  would  not 
have  exceeded  the  jurisdiction  of  the  court  or  magistrate. 


ELECTIONS. 

AN  ACT  to  provide  for  the  time  of  opening  and  closing  the  polls  during  elections 
of  cities,  towns  and  villages  in  this  state.  [Approved  May  29, 1879.  In  force 
July  1,1879.] 

180.  Time  op  Opening  and  Closing  Polls. 

Be  it  ermcted  hy  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  reyyre- 
sented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  in  all  city,  town  or 


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A'illage  elections,  in  this  state,  the  polls  shall  remain  open 
from  eight  (8)  o’clock  A.  M.  until  seven  (7)  o’clock  P.  M.,- 
any  law  in  any  special  charter  to  the  contrary  notwith- 
standing. (L.  1879,  p.  70.) 


FERRIES  AND  BRIDGES. 

AN  ACT  to  enable  cities  and  villages,  incorporated  under  any  general  or  special 
law  of  this  Slate,  to  acquire  by  pnrcbase,  lease  or  gift,  establish,  maintain,  li- 
cense and  regulate  ferries,  bi  idges,  the  approaches  thereto  and  tolls  thereon. 
[Approved  May  22,  1877.  In  force  July  1,1877.  Laws  1877,  p 61;  Legal  News 
Ed.,  p.  63.] 

181.  License  and  Regulate. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted'hy  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois 

represented  in  the  General  Assembly^  That  it  shall  be  lawful 

for  the  corporate  authorities  of  any  city  or  village,  now  or 

hereafter  incorporated  under  any  special  or  general  law  of 

this  state,  to  acipiire  by  purchase,  lease  or  gift,  and  mabi- 

tain,  license  and  regnlate  ferries  and  bridges,  so  acquired, 

and  the  approaches  thereto,  not  exceeding  four  acres  of 

land  tor  each  ferry  or  bridge,  within  the  corporate  limits 

thereof,  and  from  time  to  time  fix  tolls  thereon. 

[Note — This  act  supersedes  the  one  on  same  subject,  approved  March 
27,  1874.  See  R.  S.  1874,  p.  244. 


HOUSES  OF  ILL-FAME. 

AN  ACT  to  prevent  the  licensing  of  houses  of  ill-fame,  and  the  olHcial  inspection 
or  medical  examination  of  the  inmates  thereof,  in  the  incorporated  cities, 
towns  and  villages  of  this  state.  [Approved  and  in  force  March  27, 1874.] 

182.  Licensing  and  Medical  Inspection  Forbidden. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  people  of  the  State  of  Illinois 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly  ^ That  it  shall  be  unlaw- 
ful for  the  corporate  authorities  of  any  city,  town  or  vil- 
lage in  this  state  to  grant  a license  to  any  person,  male  or 
female,  to  keep  what  is  known  as  a house  of  ill-fame  or 
house  of  prostitution.  And  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any 


STATUTES. 


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board  of  health  (or  any  inem])er  or  employe  of  the  same) 
now  existiii<>*,  or  which  may  hereafter  exist  under  the  hiAvs 
of  this  state,  to  interfere  in  the  management  of  any  house 
of  ill-fame  or  house  of  prostitution,  or  to  provide  in  any 
manner  for  the  medical  inspection  or  examination  of  any 
inmate  of  the  same. 

183.  P]mergency. 

§ 2.  Whereas,  the  legislative  authorities  of  certain  cities 
in  this  state  are  about  to  license  houses  of  ill-fiime,  there- 
fore an  emergency  exists  why  this  act  should  take  effect 
iinmediatel}^;  theretore,  this  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in 
force  from  and  after  its  j)assage. 


L.VBOR  OX  STREETS. 

AN  ACT  providing  for  lab(^-  on  the  streets  and  alleys  of  all  cities  and  villages  in 
this  state.  [Approved  May  31,  1879.  In  force  July  1,  1879.  L.  1879,  p.  79. 

184.  Labor  OX  Streets,  Etc. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  tho.  People  of  the  State  oi  Illinois^ 
repre8ento,d  in  the  General  As-^emhly\  That  the  city  council 
in  all  cities,  and  the  president  and  board  of  trustees  in  all 
villages  in  this  state,  may  have  power,  by  ordinance,  to  rc- 
(juire  every  able-bodied  male  inhabitant  of  any  such  city  or 
village,  above  the  age  of  tAventy-one  years  and  under  the 
age  of  fifty  years,  (excepting  paupers,  idiots,  lunatics,  and 
such  others  as  are  exempt  by  laAV,)  to  labor  on  the  streets 
and  alleys  of  any  such  city  or  village,  not  more  than  two 
(2)  days,  in  each  year;  but  such  ordinance  shall  provide 
for  commutation  of  such  labor  at  seventy- five  cents  per 
day. 


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185.  Fines  and  Penalties. 

§ 2.  Any  such  city  council  or  president  and  board  of 
trustees  of  any  such  village  shall  have  power,  by  ordinance, 
to  provide  such  fines  and  penalties  as  may  be  necessary  to 
enforce  the  provisions  of  this  act. 


LEASING  LANDINGS  AND  LEVEES. 

AN  ACT  to  authorize  incorporated  cities,  towns  or  villages  in  this  state,  situated 
upon  the  banks  of  navigable  rivers,  to  lease  parts  of  their  public  landings  or 
levees.  [Approved  Marcn  31,  1874.  In  force  July  1,  1874.] 

186.  When  Landings  and  Levees  may  be  Leased. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois^ 
represeated  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  whenever,  in  the 
opinion  of  the  legislative  authority  of  any  incorporated 
city,  or  of  the  president  and  board  of  trustees  of  any  incor- 
porated city,  town  or  village  of  this  state,  situate  upon 
the  banks  of  any  navigable  river,  the  lands  acquired  and 
owned  by  any  such  city,  town  or  village,  for  the  purpose 
of  a public  landing  or  public  levee,  are  not  immediately 
required  for  such  purpose,  then  any  such  city,  town  or  vil- 
lage may  lease  such  parts  of  such  landing  or  levee  as  may 
be  thought  best  by  the  legislative  authority  of  such  city, 
or  president  and  board  of  trustees  of  such  town  or  village, 
for  the  purpose  of  erecting  manufactories,  warehouses  or 
grain  elevators  thereon : Provided,  no  such  lease  shall  ex- 
tend beyond  the  period  of  twenty-five  years  from  its  execu- 
tion. 

187,  What  Lands — When  Lease  may  Take  Effect — Defnition — 
Restriction  . 

§ 2.  That  the  right  of  any  such  city,  town  or  village  to 
lease  any  part  of  the  land  in  the  foregoing  section,  shall 
embrace  all  such  lands  as  may  have  been  conveyed  to  the 
same:  Provided,  however,  no  such  lease  shall  take  eftect  or 


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])e  111  force  until  approved  by  an  order,  resolution  or  ordi- 
nance of  the  legislative  authority  of  such  city,  or  president 
and  board  of  trustees  of  such  town  or  village.  The  words 
“legislative  authority,”  when  used  in  this  act,  shall  be  held 
to  include  the  common  council.  The  provisions  of  this  act 
shall  not  apply  to  cities  having  over  one  hundred  thousand 
inhabitants. 


LIBRAEIES. 

AN  ACT  to  authorize  cities,  incorporated  towns  and  townships  to  establish  and 
maintain  free  public  libraries  and  reading-rooms.  [Apj^roved  and  in  force 
M arch  7,  1872.  L . 1871-2,  p . 60 . ] 

188.  Establishment  BY  City — Tax — Fund. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois^ 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly^  That  the  city  council 
ot  each  incorporated  city  shall  have  the  power  to  establish 
and  maintain  a public  library  and  reading  room  for  the  use 
and  benefit  of  the  inhabitants  of  such  city,  and  may  levy  a 
tax  of  not  to  exceed  one  mill  on  the  dollar  annually,  and  in 
cities  of  over  one  hundred  thousand  inhabitants  not  to  ex- 
ceed one-half  of  a mill  on  a dollar  annually,  on  all  the  taxa- 
ble property  in  the  city ; such  tax  to  be  levied  and  col- 
lected in  like  manner  with  the  general  taxes  of  said  city, 
and  to  be  known  as  the  “library  fund;”  and  the  said  an- 
nual library  taxes  in  cities  of  over  one  hundred  thousand 
inhabitants,  shall  not  be  included  in  the  aofofreirate  amount 
of  taxes  as  limited  by  section  one  of  article  eight  of  “An 
act  for  the  incorporation  of  cities  and  villages,”  approved 
April  10,  1872. 

189.  Emergency. 

§ 2.  (Omitted.)  [As  amended  by  act  approved  and  in 
force  March  20,  1883.  Is.  1883,  p.  112. 


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8() 

11)0.  Directors. 

§ 2.  When  any  city  council  sluill  have  decided  to  estab- 
lish and  maintain  a public  library  and  reading-room,  under 
this  act,  the  mayor  of  such  city  shall,  with  the  approval 
of  the  city  council,  proceed  to  appoint  a board  of  nine  di- 
rectors for  the  same,  chosen  from  the  citizens  at  large  with 
reference  to  their  fitness  for  such  office;  and  not  more  than 
one  member  of  the  city  council  shall  be  at  any  one  time  a 
member  ot  said  board. 

11)1.  Term  of  Office  -Removal. 

§ 3.  Said  directors  shall  hold  office,  one-third  for  one 
year,  one-third  for  two  years  and  one-third  for  three  years 
from  the  first  of  July  following  their  aiipointment,  and  at 
their  first  regular  meeting  shall  cast  lots  for  the  respective- 
terms;  and  annually  thereafter  the  mayor  shall,  before  the 
first  of  July  of  each  year,  appoint  as  before  three  directors, 
to  take  the  place  of  retiring  directors,  who  shall  hold 
office  for  three  years  and  until  their  successors  are  ap- 
[lointed.  The  mayor  may,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the 
city  council,  remove  any  director  for  misconduct  or  neg- 
lect of  duty. 

11)2.  Vacancies — Compensation. 

§ 4.  Vacancies  in  the  board  of  directors,  occasioned  by 
removals,  resignation,  or  otherwise,  shall  be  reported  to 
the  city  council  and  be  filled  in  like  manner  as  original 
appointments,  and  no  director  shall  receive  compensation 
as  such. 

11)3.  Organization — Powers  of  Directors — Funds. 

§ 5.  Said  directors  shall  immediately  after  appoint- 
ment meet  and  organize  by  the  election  of  one  of  their 
number  president,  and  by  the  election  of  such  other  offi- 
(;ers  as  they  may  deem  necessary.  They  shall  make  and 


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adopt  such  by-lcTWS,  rules  and  re<>Tdations  for  their  own 
iruidance  and  for  the  govenmient  of  the  library  and  read- 
ing-room as  may  be  expedient,  not  inconsistent  with  this 
act.  They  shall  have  the  exclusive  control  of  the  expendi- 
ture of  all  moneys  collected  to  the  credit  ot  the  library 
fund,  and  of  the  construction  of  any  library  building,  and 
of  the  supervision,  care  and  custody  of  the  grounds,  rooms 
or  buildings  constructed,  leased  or  set  apart  for  that  pur- 
l)ose : Provided^  that  all  moneys  received  for  such  library 
shall  be  deposited  in  the  treasury  of  said  city  to  the  credit 
of  the  library  fund,  and  shall  be  kept  separate  and  apart 
from  other  moneys  of  such  city,  and  drawn  upon  by  the 
proper  officers  of  said  city,  upon  the  properly  authenti- 
cated vouchers  of  the  library  board.  Said  board  shall  have 
power  to  purchase  or  lease  grounds  to  occupy,  lease  or 
erect  an  appropriate  building  or  buildings  for  the  use  of 
said  library;  shall  have- power  to  appoint  a suitable  libra- 
rian and  necessary  assistants,  and  fix  their  compensation, 
and  shall  also  have  power  to  remove  such  appointees;  and 
shall,  in  general,  carry  out  the  spirit  and  intent  of  this 
act,  in  establishing  and  maintaining  a ])ublic  library  and 
reading  room. 

191.  Who  may  Use  LrimAUY. 

§ 6.  Every  library  and  reading-room,  established  under 
this  act,  shall  be  forever  free  to  the  use  of  the  inhabitants 
of  the  city  where  located,  always  subject  to  such  reasona- 
ble rules  and  regulations  as  the  library  board  may  adopt, 
in  order  to  render  the  use  of  said  librarv  and  reading-room 
of  the  greatest  benefit  to  the  greatest  number;  and  said 
board  may  exclude  from  the  use  of  said  library  and  reading 
room  any  and  all  [lersons  who  shall  willfully  violate  such 
rules.  And  said  boai*d  may  extend  the  privileges  and  use 


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of  such  library  and  reading--rooms  to  persons  residing  out- 
side of  such  city  in  this  state,  upon  such  terms  and  condi- 
tions as  said  board  may  from  time  to  time  by  its  regula- 
tions prescribe.  [As  amended  by  act  approved  March  27, 
1874.  In  force  July  1,  1874.] 

195.  Report  of  Directors. 

§ 7.  The  said  board  of  directors  shall  make,  on  or  before 
the  second  Monday  in  June,  ah  annual  report  to  the  city 
council,  stating  the  condition  of  their  trust  on  the  first  day 
of  June  of  that  year,  the  various  sums  of  money  received 
from  the  library  fund  and  from  other  sources,  and  how 
such  moneys  have  been  expended  and  for  what  purposes; 
the  number  of  books  and  periodicals  on  hand;  the  number 
added  by  purchase,  gift  or  otherwise,  during  the  year;  the 
number  lost  or  missing;  the  number  of  visitors  attending; 
the  number  of  books  loaned  out,  and  the  general  character 
and  kind  of  such  books;  with  such  other  statistics,  infor- 
mation and  suggestions  as  they  may  deem  of  general  inter- 
est. All  such  portions  of  said  report  as  relate  to  the  re- 
ceipt and  expenditure  of  money,  as  well  (as)  the  number 
of  books  on  hand,  books  lost  or  missing,  and  books  pur- 
chased, shall  be  verified  by  affidavit. 

196.  Penalties. 

§ 8,  The  city  council  of  said  city  shall  have  power  to 
pass  ordinances  imposing  suitable  penalties  for  the  punish- 
ment of  persons  committing  injury  upon  such  library  or 
the  grounds  or  other  property  thereof,  and  for  injury  to  or 
failure  to  return  any  book  belonging  to  such  library. 

197.  Donations. 

§ 9.  Any  person  desiring  to  make  donations  of  money. 


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persoiiLil  property  or  real  estate  for  the  benefit  of  such  li- 
l)rary,  shall  have  the  right  to  vest  the  title  to  the  money 
or  real  estate  so  donated  in  the  board  of  directors  created 
under  this  act,  to  l)e  held  and  controlled  by  such  board, 
Avhen  accepted,  according  to  the  terms  of  the  deed,  gift, 
devise  or  Ijequest  of  such  property ; and  as  to  such  property 
the  said  board  shall  be  held  and  considered  to  be  special 
trustees. 

10  and  11  refer  to  libraries  in  incorporated  towns. 

§ 12.  Emergency.  (Omitted.) 


OFFICERS  OF  CITIES. 

AN  ACT  to  prevent  fraudulent  and  corrupt  practices  in  the  making  or  accepting 
of  official  appointments  and  contracts  by  public  officers.  [Approved  April  9 
1872.  In  force  July  1,  1872.  L.  1871-2.  p.  612.] 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  Peojjle  of  the  State  of  Illinois^ 

represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  * * 

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 

198.  Aldermen  of  Cities — Trustees  of  Villages. 

§ 2.  That  it  shall  be  and  is  hereby  declared  unlawful  for 
any  alderman  of  any  city,  or  member  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees of  any  village  of  this  state,  during  the  term  of  office 
for  which  he  is  elected,  to  accept  or  be  appointed  to  or 
hold  any  office  by  the  appointment  of  the  mayor  or  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  trustees  thereof;  and  any  and  all  such 
election  or  appointment  shall  be  absolutely  null  and  void. 

199.  Not  to  be  Interested  in  Contracts — Not  to  Act  as  Attorney 
TO  Procure — Bribery. 

§ 3.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person,  now  or  here- 
after holding  any  office,  either  by  election  or  appointment, 
under  the  constitution  of  this  state,  to  become  in  any  man- 


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ner  interested,  either  directly  or  indirectly,  in  his  own 
name  or  in  the  name  ot  any  other  person  or  corporation, 
in  any  contract,  or  the  performance  of  any  work  in  the 
making  or  letting  of  which  such  officer  may  be  called  upon 
to  act  or  vote.  And  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  such 
officer  to  represent,  either  as  agent  or  otherwise,  any  per- 
son, company  or  corporation,  in  respect  of  any  application 
or  bid  for  any  contract  or  work  in  regard  to  which  such 
officer  may  be  called  upon  to  vote.  Nor  shall  any  such  of- 
ficer take  or  receive,  or  offer  to  take  or  receive,  either  di- 
rectly or  indirectly,  any  money  or  other  thing  of  value,  as 
a gift  or  bribe,  or  a means  of  influencing  his  vote  or  action 
in  his  official  character;  and  any  and  all  contracts  made 
and  procured  in  violation  hereof,  shall  be  null  and  void. 

200.  I^ENALTY. 

§ 4.  Any  alderman,  member  of  a board  of  trustees,  su- 
pervisor or  county  commissioner,  or  person  now  or  here- 
after holding  any  office,  either  by  election  or  appointment 
under  the  constitution  of  this  state,  or  any  law  now  or 
hereafter  in  torce  in  this  state,  who  shall  violate  any  of  the 
provisions  of  the  preceding  sections,  shall  be  deemed  guilty 
of  a misdemeanor,  and  on  conviction  thereof,  may  be  pun- 
ished by  confinement  in  the  penitentiary  for  a term  not  less 
than  one  year  nor  more  than  five  years  or  fined  in  a sum 
not  less  than  |2()0  nor  more  than  $1,000,  or  both,  in  the 
discretion  of  the  court  before  which  such  conviction  shall 
l)e  had ; and  in  addition  thereto,  any  office  or  official  posi- 
tion held  by  any  person  or  persons  so  convicted  shall,,  by 
the  fact  of  such  conviction,  become  vacant,  and  shall  be  so 
declared  as  a part  of  the  judgment  of  court;  and  the  person 
or  persons  so  convicted  shall  be  disqualified  from  holding 
any  office  or  position  of  trust  and  confidence  in  this  state 


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in 


for  the  period  of  two  yeai-s  from  and  after  the  date  of  sueh 
eonviction. 


OIL  INSPECTION. 


AN  ACT  to  revise  the  law  in  relation  to  oil  Inspection.  [Approved  Mai'ch  12, 1874. 

In  force  July  1,  1874. 

201.  Appointment  OF  Inspectors — Term  of  Office — Deputies, 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Idinois, 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly^  That  the  mayor  of  any 
city,  Avith  the  approval  of  the  city  council,  and  the  board 
of  trustees  of  any  village  or  toAvn  may,  and  on  the  petition 
of  any  five  inhabitants  thereof,  shall  appoint  one  or  more 
inspectors  for  the  inspection  of  coal  oil,  naphtha,  gasoline, 
benzine  and  other  mineral  oils  or  fluids,  the  product  of  pe- 
troleum, and  fix  their  compensation,  to  be  paid  by  the  party 
requiring  their  services.  Every  such  inspector  shall  hold 
his  office  for  one  year  and  until  his  successor  is  appointed 
and  qualified,  unless  sooner  removed  from  office.  He  may 
appoint  deputies  for  Avhom  he  shall  be  responsible,  and  Avho 
shall  take  the  same  oath,  and  be  liable  to  the  same  ])enalties 
as  the  inspector. 

202,  Oath — Bond — Suit  on, 

§ 2.  EA'ery  such  inspector,  before  entering  upon  the  du- 
ties of  his  office,  shall  take  and  subscribe  the  folloAving 
oath  ; 

I do  soleinly  swear  (or  affirm,  as  the  case  may  be),  that  1 will  support 
the  constitution  of  the  United  States  and  the  constitution  of  the  State  of  Il- 
linois, and  that  T will  faithfully  discharge  the  duties  of  the  office  of  oil  in- 
spector according  to  the  best  of  my  ability. 

He  shall  also  execute  a bond  payable  to  the  people  of  the 
state,  in  such  sum  as  shall  be  reipiired  by  the  city  council 
or  board  of  trustees,  Avith  one  or  more  sureties,  to  be  a^)- 


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proved  by  the  mayor  or  president  of  the  board  of  trustees, 
conditioned  for  the  faithtul  discharge  of  the  duties  of  his 
office.  Any  person  aggrieved  by  the  misconduct  or  neglect 
of  such  inspector  may  maintain  suit  thereon  for  his  own 
use. 

203.  Inspector  to  Test, 

§ 3.  Upon  the  application  of  any  manufacturer,  refiner 
or  producer  of,  or  any  dealer  in,  any  such  oil  or  fluid,  or  of 
any  officer  or  person  to  test  any  such  oil  or  fluid,  such  in- 
spector shall  test  the  same  with  all  reasonable  dispatch  by 
applying  the  fire  test,  as  indicated  and  determined  by  J. 
Tagliabue’s  pyrometer,  or  some  other  instrument  or  means 
equally  accurate,  with  which  he  shall  have  provided  him- 
self at  his  own  expense. 

204r.  Test— Casks  Marked — Inspector  not  to  Trade  in  Oil. 

§ 4.  If  the  oils  or  fluids  so  tested  will  not  ignite  or  ex- 
plode at  a temperature  less  than  one  hundred  and  fifty 
degrees  Fahrenheit,  the  inspector  shall  mark,  plainly  and 
indelibly  on  each  cask,  barrel  or  package  “approved,  fire 

test  being but  if  said  oils  or  fluids  will  ignite  at 

a temperature  less  than  one  hundred  and  fifty-degrees  Fah- 
renheit, as  aforesaid,  then  the  inspector  shall  mark  on  each 
cask,  barrel  or  package  “condemned  for  illuminating  pur- 
poses; fire  test  being ”.  Said  inspector,  while  in 

office  shall  not  buy,  sell,  barg’ain  or  trade,  directly  or  indi„ 
rectly,  in  any  of  the  said  oils  or  fluids. 

205.  Record  Kept  and  Open  to  Examination. 

§ 5.  He  shall  also,  within  twenty-four  hours  after  mak- 
ing an  inspection,  make  a free  and  fair  entry  thereof  in  a 
record  book  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose,  which  shall  be 
open  to  all  persons  wishing  to  examine  the  same. 


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!206.  Penalty  for  Misconduct  in  Office. 

§ 6.  Any  such  inspector  or  deputy  who  shall  falsely 
brand  any  package,  cask  or  barrel,  or  be  .guilty  of  any 
fraud,  deceit,  misconduct  or  culpable  negligence  in  the 
performance  of  any  of  his  official  duties,  shall  be  fined  not 
exceeding  $200,  and  be  liable  to  the  party  injured  for  all 
damages  occasioned  thereby, 

207.  Penalty  for  Neglect  to  Give  Notice  of,  or  Selling  Oil  not 
Inspected— Counterfeit  Brands,  Etc. 

§ 7.  Any  manufacturer,  refiner  or  producer  of,  or  any 
dealer  in  coal  oil,  naphtha, gasoline,  benzine,  or  other  min- 
eral oil  or  fluid,  the  product  of  petroleum,  in  any  city,  vil- 
lage or  town  in  which  such  inspector  is  appointed,  who 
shall  neglect  to  give  notice  to  such  inspector,  of  any  such 
oil  or  fluid  in  his  possession  not  already  inspected  by  some 
authorized  inspeator  of  this  state,  Avithin  two  days  after 
the  same  is  made  or  refined  by  him  or  received  into  his 
possession,  or  shall  offer  any  such  oil  or  fluid  for  sale  be- 
fore the  same  has  been  so  inspected,  or  shall  sell  or  attempt 
to  sell  to  any  person,  tor  illuminating  purposes,  any  such 
oil  Avhich  is  below  the  approved  standard — ^that  is,  having 
igniting  point  less  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  degrees  Fah- 
renheit, as  indicated  and  determined  in  the  manner  herein 
provided,  or  shall  use  any  package,  cask,  barrel  or  other 
thing  having  the  inspection  brand  thereon,  the  oil  or  fluid 
therein  not  having  been  inspected,  or  shall  counterfeit  any 
brand,  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  $200  and  be  liable  to  the 
party  injured  for  all  damages  occasioned  thereby,  and  all 
the  casks,  barrels  or  packages  so  falsely  used,  am/  their 
contents,  shall  be  forfeited  and  may  be  seized  and  sold. 

208.  Fines,  now  Recovered  and  Disposed  of. 

§ 8.  The  fines  herein  provided  may  be  recovered  in  the 


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luime  of  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  before  any  jus- 
tice of  the  peace  of  the  county  where  the  offense  is  com- 
mitted, one-half  shall  be  paid  to  the  informer,  and  the 
other  half  and  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  all  casks,  barrels 
and  packages,  and  the  contents  thereof  seized,  as  herein 
provided,  shall  be  paid  into  the  city,  village  or  town  treas- 
ury. 


POLICE  MAGISTIiATES, 

AN  ACT  to  authorize  the  election  of  jxjlice  magistrates  in  towns,  cities  and  vil 
lages  where  the  same  are  not  now  provided  tor  by  law.  [Approved  and  in 
force  April  13,  1875.  Laws  1875,  p.  91.  ] 

209.  Election — Term  op  Office — Jurisdiction  and  Fees. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  all  towns,  cities 
and  villages  in  the  state  which  have  been  incorporated  un- 
der charters  granted  by  special  acts,  or  under  a general 
act,  when  the  law  under  which  they  are  incorporated  does 
not  authorize  the  election  of  a police  magistrate,  be  and 
they  are  hereb}"  authorized  to  elect  one  police  magistrate 
at  the  first  annual  election  of  town,  city  or  village  officers 
that  shall  occur  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  and  quadren- 
nially thereafter.  Such  police  magistrates  shall  hold  their 
offices  for  the  same  term,  be  commissioned  and  qualified, 
and  have  the  same  jurisdiction  and  fees  as  police  magis- 
trates of  villages  have  under  the  general  law  for  the  incor- 
poration of  cities  and  villages. 

210.  Emergency. 

§ 2.  As  the  first  annual  election  of  toMTi,  city,  and  vil- 
lage officers  in  many  of  the  towns,  cities  and  villages  in 
this  state  by  this  act  authorized  to  elect  a police  magistrate. 


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will  occur  before  the  first  clay  of  July  next,  after  the  ad- 
journment of  this  General  Assembly;  therefore  an  emer- 
irency  exists  requiring  this  act  to  take  effect  im- 
mediately ; therefore  this  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in 
force  from  and  after  its  passage:  Provided,  that  t\\Q> 
tion  for  police  magistrates  in  cities  that  have  one  or  more 
police  magistrates,  elected  under  a former  organization  as  a 
town  or  city,  shall  not  be  held  until  the  term  for  which 
said  police  magistrate  or  magistrates  were  elected  has  ex- 
pired. 


PUBLIC  BUILDINGS. 

AN  ACT  to  regulate  the  means  of  egress  from  public  buildings.  [Approved 

March  28,  1874.  In  force  July  1,  1874  ] 

211.  Doors  to  Open  Outward. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  Pe^j^le  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  all  public  build- 
ings now  in  process  of  construction  or  hereafter  to  be  built 
or  constructed,  which  may  or  shall  be  used  for  churches, 
school-houses,  operas,  theatres,  lecture  rooms,  hotels,  pub- 
lic meetings,  town  halls,  or  which  may  or  shall  be  used  for 
any  purpose  whereby  a collection  of  people  may  be  assem- 
bled together  for  religious  worship,  amusement  or  instruc- 
tion, shall  be  so  built  and  constructed  that  all  doors  lead- 
ing from  the  main  hall  or  place  where  said  collection  of 
people  may  be  assembled,  or  from  the  principal  room  that 
may  be  used  for  any  of  the  purposes  aforesaid,  shall  be  so 
swung  upon  their  hinges  and  constructed  that  said  doors 
shall  open  outward;  and  that  all  means  of  egress  for  the 
public  from  the  main  hall  or  principal  room  and  from  the 
building  shall  be  by  means  of  doors  which  shall  open  out- 
ward from  the  main  hall  or  building. 


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212.  Penalty. 

§ 2.  That  any  person  or  persons  who  shall  fail  or  refuse 
to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  fined  in 
any  sum  not  less  than  |100  nor  more  than  $1 ,000. 

213.  When  Public  Buildings  May  be  Closed. 

§ 3.  That  in  all  cities  and  towns  having'  a population  of 
two  thousand  inhabitants  and  upwards,  the  mayor,  or  other 
corporate  authorities  of  said  town  or  city  shall  be  empow- 
ered and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  close  and  prohibit,  all 
public  building's  hereafter  erected  from  being  used  in  vio- 
lation of  this  act. 


PUNISHMENT  OF  PERSONS  VIOLATING  ORDI- 
NANCES. 

AN  ACT  to  provide  for  the  punishment  of  persons  violating  any  of  the  ordi- 
nances of  the  several  cities  and  villages  in  this  state,  [Approved  and  in  force 
April  12,  1S79.  L,  1879,  p.  79 . ] 

214.  Violations  op  Ordinances — How  Provided. 

§ 1.  JJe  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois^ 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  in  all  actions  for 
the  violation  of  any  ordinance  of  any  city  or  village  organ- 
ized under  any  general  or  special  law  of  this  state,  the  first 
process  shall  be  a summons.  Provided,  however,  that  a war- 
rant for  the  arrest  of  the  offender  may  issue  in  the  first  in- 
stance, upon  the  affidavit  of  any  person  that  any  such  ordi- 
nance has  been  violated,  and  that  the  person  making  the 
complaint  has  reasonable  grounds  to  believe  the  party 
charged  is  guilty  thereof;  and  any  person  arrested  on  such 
warrant,  shall,  without  unnecessary  delay,  be  taken  before 
the  proper  officer,  to  be  tried  for  the  alleged  offense.  Any 
person  upon  whom  any  fine  or  penalty  shall  be  imposed  may, 
upon  the  order  of  the  court  or  magistrate  before  whom  the 


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conviction  is  had,  he  committed  to  the  county  jail  or  the 
calaboose,  city  prison,  Avork-honse,  house  of  correction,  or 
other  place  provided  1>y  such  cities  or  villag-es  by  ordinance 
for  the  incarceration  of  such  oftenders  until  such  fines,  pen- 
alty and  cost  shall  be  full}^  paid ; Provided^  that  no  such 
imprisonment  shall  exceed  six  months  for  any  one  offense. 
The  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  ot  any  such  cities  or 
villages  shall  have  power  to  provide  by  ordinance  that  ev- 
ery person  so  committed  shall  be  required  to  work  at  such 
labor  as  his  or  her  strength  will  permit,  within  and  with- 
out such  prison,  Avorkhouse,  house  of  correction,  or  other 
place  provided  tor  the  incarceration  of  such  off'enders,  not 
to  exceed  ten  hours  each  Avorking  day ; and  tor  such  Avork 
the  person  so  employed  or  Avorked,  shall  be  alloAved,exclu- 
si\^e  of  his  or  her  board,  the  sum  of  fifty  cents  for  each 
da}^’s  AAmrk  on  account  of  such  fine  and  costs. 

215.  Repeal. 

§ 2.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  Avith  the 
foregoing  section  are  hereby  repealed. 

216.  Emergency. 

§ 3.  Whereas,  in  some  of  the  cities  and  Aullages  in  this 
state  there  is  no  authority  for  the  imprisonment  of  offend- 
ers in  Avork-houses  or  houses  of  correction,  and  requiring 
such  offenders  to  Avork,  therefore  an  emergency  is  declared 
to  exist,  and  this  act  shall  be  in  force  from  and  after  its 
passage. 

ROADS  AND  BRIDGES, 

AN  ACT  in  regard  to  roads  and  bridges  in  counties  under  township  organization, 
and  to  repeal  an  act  and  parts  of  acts  therein  named.  [Approved  June  23, 
1883.  In  force  July  1,  1883.  L.  1883,  p.  137.] 

♦ ♦♦♦*** 

217.  Commissioners  — Certificate  — Tax  Extended — How  Col- 
lected AND  Paid. 

§ 16,  The  commissioners,  at  said  semi-annual  meeting, 


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shall  make  a certificate  of  the  rate  per  centum  finally 
agreed  upon,  by  virtue  of  sections  thirteen  and  fourteen  of 
this  act,  also  the  amount  to  liquidate  road  and  ditch  dam- 
ages, and  shall  cause  such  certificate  to  be  delivered  to  the 
town  clerk,  to  be  kept  by  him  on  file  for  the  inspection  of 
the  inhabitants  of  said  town ; and  the  town  clerk  shall  at 
once  certify  these  two  items  of  levy  to  the  county  clerk, 
to  be  by  him  extended  as  one  tax  upon  the  collector’s  books 
of  said  town,  to  be  collected  as  other  taxes,  and  when  col- 
lected shall  be  paid  to  the  treasurer  of  the  commissioners 
by  the  collector  as  fast  as  the  same  is  collected,  except  such 
rate  per  cent,  as  shall  be  allowed  tor  collecting  the  same; 
Provided,  that  one-half  the  tax  provided  to  be  levied  in 
section  thirteen  of  this  act,  and  collected  for  road  and 
bridge  purposes  on  the  property  lying  within  an  incorpor- 
ated village,  town  or  city  in  which  the  streets  and  alleys 
are  under  the  care  of  the  corporation,  shall  be  paid  over  to 
the  treasurer  of  such  village,  town  or  city,  to  be  appropri- 
ated to  the  improvement  of  roads,  streets  and  bridges, 
either  within  or  without  said  village,  town  or  city,  and 
within  the  township,  under  the  direction  of  the  corporate 
authorities  of  such  village,  town  or  city;  Provided,  further, 
that  whenever  any  of  said  tax  is  expended  beyond  the  lim- 
its of  said  village,  town  or  city,  it  shall  be  with  the  consent 
of  the  road  commissioners  of  the  town. 


SALARIES  OF  CITY  OFFICERS. 

AX  ACT  to  enable  the  corporate  authorities  of  ciiies  to  establish  and  fix  the  sal- 
aries of  city  officers . [Approved  and  in  force  April  23, 1873,] 

218.  When  TO  be  Fixed — Not  Changed  During  Term. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  people  of  the  State  of  Illinois 

represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  It  shall  and  may  be 

lawful  for  the  common  council  or  legislative  authority  ot 


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any  city  in  this  state  to  establish  and  fix  the  amount  of  sal- 
ary to  be  pahl  any  and  all  city  officers,  as  the  case  maybe 
except  members  of  such  legislative  body,  in  the  annual  ap- 
propriation bill,  or  ordinance  made  for  the  purpose  of  pro- 
viding for  the  annual  expenses  of  any  such  city,  or  by  some 
ordinance  prior  to  the  passage  of  such  annual  appropria- 
tion bill  or  ordinance;  and  the  salaries  or  compensation 
thus  fixed  or  established,  shall  neither  be  increased  nor  di- 
minished by  the  said  common  council  or  legislative  author- 
ity of  any  such  city,  after  the  passage  of  said  annual  appro- 
priation bill  or  ordinance,  during  the  year  for  which  such 
appropriation  is  made,  and  no  extra  compensation  shall 
ever  be  allowed  to  any  such  officer  or  employee  over  and 
above  that  provided  in  manner  aforesaid. 

219.  Emergency. 

§ 2.  Whereas  the  corporate  authorities  of  certain  cities 
in  this  state  have  no  power  to  establish  or  fix  the  salaries 
of  their  city  officers  in  certain  cases,  whereby  an  emergen- 
cy exists  requiring  this  act  to  take  immediate  effect : there- 
fore this  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after 
its  passage. 


SIDEWALKS. 


AN  ACT  to  provide  additional  means  for  the  construction  of  sidewalks  in  cities, 
towns,  and  villages.  [Approved  April  15,  1875.  In  force  July  1. 1875.  Laws 
1875;  p.  63.) 

220.  Sidewalks  by  Taxation. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hj  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois^ 
represented  in  the  General  Assemhly,  That  in  addition  to  tlie 
mode  now  authorized  by  law,  any  city  or  incorporated 
town  or  village  may,  by  ordinance,  provide  for  the  con- 
struction of  sidewalks  therein,  or  along  or  upon  any  street 


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or  part  of  street  therein,  and  may,  1>y  such  ordinance,  pro 
vide  for  the  pa^nnent  of  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  cost 
thereof,  by  special  taxation  of  the  lot,  lots  or  parcels  of 
land  tonching’  upon  the  line  where  any  such  sidewalk  shall 
be  ordered,  and  such  special  taxation  may  be  either  by  a 
levy  upon  an}^  lot  of  the  whole,  or  any  part  of  the  cost  of 
making'  any  such  sidewalk  in  front  of  such  lot  or  parcel  of 
land,  or  by  levying  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  cost  upon 
each  of  the  lots  or  parcels  of  land  touching  upon  the  line  of 
such  sidewalk,  pro  rata  upon  each  of  said  lots  or  parcels 
according  to  their  respective  values — the  values  to  be  de- 
termined by  the  last  preceding  assessment  thereof  for  the 
purpose  of  state  and  county  taxation;  or  the  whole  or  any 
part  of  the  cost  thereot  may  be  levied  upon  such  lots  or 
parcels  of  land  in  proportion  to  their  frontag’e  upon  such 
sidewalks,  or  in  proportion  to  their  superficial  area  as  may 
be  provided  by  ordinance  ordering  the  laying  down  of  such 
sidewalk ; and  in  case  such  ordinance  shall  only  require  the 
payment  of  a part  of  the  cost  of  such  sidewalk  to  be  paid 
by  a special  tax  as  aforesaid,  then  the  residue  of  such  cost 
shall  be  paid  out  of  any  fund  of  such  city,  town,  or  village, 
raised  by  general  taxation  upon  the  property  thereof,  and 
not  otherwise  appropriated. 

221,  WlIAT  OllDINANCE  MAY  PROVIDE. 

§ 2.  Said  ordinance  shall  define  the  location  of  such  pro- 
posed sidewalk  with  reasonable  certainty,  shall  prescribe 
its  width,  the  materials  of  which  it  shall  be  constructed, 
and  the  manner  of  its  construction,  and  may  provide  that 
the  materials  and  construction  shall  be  under  the 
supervision  of,  and  subject  to,  the  approval  of  some  offi- 
cer or  board  of  officers  of  such  city,  town  or  village,  to  be 
designated  in  said  ordinance.  Said  ordinance  shall  be  pub- 


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lislied  as  required  hy  law  for  other  ordinances  of  said 
city,  town  or  village,  and  may  require  all  owners  of  lots  or 
parcels  of  land  touching  the  line  of  said  proposed  sidewalk 
to  construct  a sidewalk  in  front  of  their  respective  lots  or 
parcels  in  accordance  with  the  specifications  of  said  ordi- 
nance, within  thirty  days  after  such  piddication,  and  in  de- 
tanlt  thereof,  said  materials  to  he  furnished  and  sidewalk 
constructed  hy  said  city,  town  or  village,  and  the  cost,  or 
such  part  thereof  as  may  l)e  fixed  in  said  ordinance,  may  be 
collected  from  the  respective  owners  of  said  lots  or  ])arcels 
of  land  as  hereinafter  provided. 

222.  In  Case  Owner  Neglects  to  Constkcct. 

•§  3.  In  case  of  the  default  of  any  lot  owner  or  owners 
to  construct  the  sidewalks,  as  required  by  ordinance,  and 
the  same  sliall  l)e  constructed  by  the  city,  town  or  village, 
the  cost  thereof,  or  such  part  of  the  cost  thereof  as  may 
have  been  fixed  by  said  ordinance,  may  be  recovered  of  the 
owners  so  in  default  by  an  action  of  debt  in  the  name  of 
the  city,  town  or  village,  against  such  owners  respectively 
in  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction,  or  upon  the  com- 
pletion of  the  Avork  by  such  city,  town  or  village.  Such  or- 
dinance may  provide  that  a bill  of  the  cost  of  such  sidewalk 
showing  in  separate  items  the  cost  of  grading, materials, lay- 
ing doAvn,  and  supervision,  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the 
clerk  of  such  city,  toAvn  or  village,  certified  to  by  the  offi- 
cer or  board  designated  by  said  ordinance  to  take  charge 
of  the  construction  of  said  sidcAvalk,  together  Avith  a list  of 
the  lots  or  parcels  of  land  touching  upon  the  line  of  said 
sidcAvalk,  the  names  of  the  owners  thereof,  and  the  front- 
age, superficial  area,  or  assessed  value  as  aforesaid,  accord- 
ing as  said  ordinance  may  proAude  for  the  lev}'. of  said  costs 
by  frontage,  superficial  area,  or  assessed  Arabic;  whereupon 


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said  clerk  shall  proceed  to  prepare  a special  tax  list  against 
said  lots  or  parcels,  and  the  owners  thereof,  ascertaining-  b}' 
computation  the  amount  of  special  tax  to  be  charged 
against  each  of  said  lots  or  parcels  and  the  owners  thereof 
on  account  of  the  construction  of  said  sidewalk,  according 
to  the  rule  fixed  for  the  levy  of  such  special  tax  by  said  or- 
dinance, which  special  tax-list  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of 
said  clerk ; and  said  clerk  shall  thereupon  issue  warrants 
directed  to  such  officer  as  may  be  designated  in  such  ordi- 
nance, for  the  collection  of  the  amount  of  special  tax  so 
ascertained  and  appearing  from  said  special  tax-list  to  be 
due  from  the  respective  owners  of  the  lots  or  parcels  of 
land  touching  upon  the  line  of  said  sidewalk;  and  such  of- 
ficer shall  proceed  to  collect  such  warrants  in  the  same 
manner  as  constables  are  authorized  to  collect  executions, 
and  make  return  thereof,  together  with  the  moneys  col- 
lected, to  the  clerk  ot  such  city,  town  or  village,  within 
sixty  days  from  the  date  of  their  issue;  and  in  case  any 
such  warrant  shall  be  returned,  as  to  the  whole  or  any  part 
thereof,  “no  property  found,”  other  warrants  may  issue, 
and  proceedings  by  garnishment  may  be  resorted  to,  as  in 
cases  of  garnishment  in  aid  of  the  collection  of  judgments 
at  law,  and  all  moneys  so  collected  and  paid  over  to  said 
clerk  shall  be,  by  him,  immediately  paid  over  to  the  treas- 
urer of  said  city,  town  or  village. 

223.  Special  Tax — Duty  of  Clerk — Report. 

§ 4.  Upon  failure  to  collect  such  special  tax  as  hereto- 
fore provided  in  this  act,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  clerk, 
within  such  time  as  such  ordinance  may  provide,  to  make 
report  of  all  such  special  tax  in  writing,  to  such  general 
officer  of  the  county  as  may  be  authorized  by  law  to  apply 
for  judgment  ag'ainst,  and  sell  lands  for  taxes  due  county 


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or  state,  of  all  the  lots  or  parcels  of  lands  upon  which  such 
special  tax  shall  he  so  unpaid ; with  the  names  of  the  re- 
spective owners  thereof,  so  far  as  the  same  are  known  to 
said  clerk,  and  the  amount  due  and  unpaid  upon  each  tract 
together  with  a copy  of  the  ordinance  ordering  the  con- 
struction of  said  sidewalk,  which  report  shall  be  accom- 
panied by  the  oath  of  the  clerk  that  the  list  is  a correct  re- 
turn of  the  lots  and  parcels  of  land  on  which  the  special  tax 
levied  by  authority  of  said  city,  town  or  village,  for  the 
cost  or  partial  cost  (as  the  case  may  be)  of  the  sidewalk  in 
said  ordinance  specified,  remains  due  and  unpaid,  and  that 
the  amounts  therein  stated  as  due  and  unpaid  have  not 
been  collected,  nor  any  part  thereof.  Said  reports,  when 
so  made,  shall  be  jprhna  facta  evidence  that  all  the  forms 
and  requirements  of  the  law  in  relation  to  making  such  re- 
turn have  been  complied  with,  and  that  the  special  tax,  as 
mentioned  in  said  report,  is  due  and  unpaid. 

224.  Genekal  Officer  to  Obtain  Judgment — By  What  Laws  Gov- 
erned, 

§ 5.  When  said  general  officer  shall  receive  the  afore- 
said report,  he  shall  at  once  proceed  to  obtain  judgment 
against  said  lots  or  parcels  of  land  for  said  special  tax  re- 
maining due  and  unpaid,  in  the  same  manner  as  maybe 
provided  by  law  for  obtaining  judgment  against  lands  for 
taxes  due  and  unpaid  to  the  comity  and  state,  and  shall  in 
the  same  manner  proceed  to  sell  the  same  for  the  said  spec- 
ial tax  due  and  unpaid.  In  obtaining  said  judgment  and 
making  said  sale,  the  said  officer  shall  be  governed  by  the 
general  revenue  laws  of  the  state,  except  when  otherwise 
provided  herein,  and  said  general  laws  shall  also  be  applic- 
able to  the  execution  of  certificates  of  sale,  and  deeds  there- 
on, and  the  force  and  effect  of  such  sales  and  deeds;  and  all 


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other  law&iii  relation  to  the  enforcement  and  collection  of 
taxes,  and  redemption  from  tax  sales,  shall  be  applicable  to 
proceeding’s  to  collect  such  special  tax,  except  as  herein 
otherwise  provided. 

225.  When  Constructed  by  Owner  May  Obtain  Ohde:r. 

§ d.  Whenever  payment  of  the  costs  of  any  such  side- 
walk is  required  to  be  made  in  part  by  special  tax,  and  in 
part  out  of  any  general  fund  of  such  city,  town,  or  village 
and  the  owner  of  any  such  lot  or  parcel  of  land  shall  con- 
struct such  sidevvnilk  in  accordance  wdth  the  ordinance  pro- 
viding for  its  construction,  such  owner  shall  file  with  the 
(derk  of  such  city,  town  or  village,  an  itemized  statement 
of  the  cost  of  such  sidewalk  so  constructed,  by  him  verified 
by  affidavit,  together  with  a certificate  of  the  officer  or 
board  directed  by  such  ordinance  to  superintend  the  con- 
struction thereof,  that  such  sidewalk  has  been  constructed 
and  fully  completed  by'such  owner  in  accordance  with  such 
ordinance,  and  the  council  of  such  city,  town  or  village, 
shall  thereupon,  at  its  first  meeting  thereatter,  allow  an 
order  to  be  issued  to  such  owner,  an  order  on  the  treasurer 
of  such  city,  town  or  village,  for  the  cost  of  the  construc- 
tion of  such  sidewalk,  less  the  amount  of  special  tax  charge- 
able to  the  lot  or  parcel  of  land  of  such  owner  on  the  line 
of  which  such  sidewalk  has  been  so  constructed. 


SEWERAGE, 

AN  ACT  to  enable  cities,  towns  and  villages  to  contract  with  each  other  for  sew- 
erage. [Approved  May  14,  1879,  In  force  July  1,  1879.  L.  1879,  p.  75.] 

226.  Municipal  Corporations  May  Contract  with  Each  Other 
FOR  Sewerage. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
represented  in  the  General  Assemhly,  That  whenever  any 


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city,  or  incorporated  town  or  village,  shall  be  adjacent  or 
contiguous  to  any  other  city,  or  incorporated  town  or  vil- 
lage, they  shall  be  authorized  to  contract  with  each  other 
upon  such  terms  as  may  be  agreed  upon  between  them,  to 
allow  and  permit  the  one  the  use  and  benefit  of  any  sewer 
or  drain,  or  of  any  system  of  sewerage  or  drainage  hereto- 
fore constructed,  or  which  may  l)e  hereafter  constructed  by 
the  other,  and  further  that  any  such  sewer  or  drain  or  sys- 
tem of  sewerage  or  drainage  constructed,  or  which  may 
hereafter  be  constructed  by  the  one,  may  be  extended  or 
furnished  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  other,  and  they  may  by 
contract  with  each  other  provide  for  the  joint  construction 
of  any  sewer  or  drain  by  the  municipalities  so  contracting, 
and  for  the  common  use  thereof  by  the  inhabitants  of  such 
municipalities. 

227.  Contracts — How  Made. 

§ 2.  The  contract  contemplated  in  section  one  of  this 
act  may  be  made  by  ordinance  or  resolution  duly  enacted 
or  passed  by  the  common  council,  board  ot  trustees,  or  other 
proper  legislative  authority  of  the  city  or  incorporated 
town  or  village  confirming  or  agreeing  to  such  contract 
and  every  such  contract  when  ratified  or  confirmed  by  the 
proper  corporate  authorities  of  the  municipal  corporations 
who  are  parties  thereto,  shall  be  in  all  respects  valid  and 
binding. 

SEWERAGE,  WATER  AND  LIGHT  TAXES. 

AN  ACT  in  relation  to  the  levy  and  collection  of  taxes  for  sewerage  and  water 
•works  in  cities  of  this  state,  that  may  have  established  a system  of  sewerage 
and  water  works  for  such  city,  and  to  repeal  an  act  therein  named,  and  to 
authorize  the  cities,  villages  and  incorpomted  towns  of  this  state  to  levy  and 
collect  taxes  to  pay  for  water  and  light.  [Approved  June  21,  1883.  In  force 
July  1.1883.  L.  1883.  p.  68.] 

228.  Sewerage  Fund  Tax. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  Peoyyle  of  the  Stale  of  Illinois,, 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly,,  That  the  legislative 


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authority  of  any  city  which  now  has,  or  may  hereafter  es- 
tablish a system  of  sewerage  for  such  city  shall  have  power 
annnally,  to  levy  and  collect  a tax  upon  the  taxable  real 
and  personal  estate  of  such  city,  not  to  exceed  one  mill  on 
a dollar,  for  the  extension  and  laying  of  sewers  therein, 
and  the  maintenance  of  such  sewers,  which  tax  shall  be 
known  as  “The  sewerage  fund  tax,”  and  shall  be  levied  and 
collected  in  the  same  manner  that  other  general  taxes  of 
any  such  city  are  levied  and  collected:  Provided^  however, 
that  the  board  of  public  works  of  such  city,  if  any,  or  the 
head  of  the  sewer  department  of  such  city,  shall  first  certi- 
fy to  such  legislative  authority  the  amount  that  wi,ll  be 
necessary  for  such  purpose : Provided,  further,  that  a two- 
third  majority  of  all  the  members  elect  of  the  legislative 
authority  of  such  city,  may  levy  a tax  for  such  purposes, 
not  to  exceed  three  mills  on  each  dollar  of  the  taxable 
property  of  such  city. 

229.  Water  Fund  and  Light  Ta^. 

§ 2.  The  legislative  authority  of  any  city  Avhich  now 
has,  or  which  may  hereafter  have  established  or  hired  wa- 
ter works,  for  the  supply  of  water  to  the  inhabitants  there- 
of, shall  have  power  to  amiually  levy  and  collect  a tax  upon 
the  taxable  real  and  personal  estate  of  any  such  city, 
Avhether  organized  under  a special  charter  or  the  general 
law,  not  to  exceed  one  mill  on  the  dollar,  for  the  extension 
of  water  mains  or  pipes  therein,  and  the  maintenance  of 
such  water-works,  or  to  the  creation  of  a sinking  fund  to 
be  applied  to  the  establishment  of  water  works,  which  tax 
shall  be  known  as  the  “water  fund  tax,”  and  shall  be  levied 
and  collected  in  the  same  manner  that  other  general  taxes 
of  any  such  city  are  levied  and  collected : Provided,  that 
the  board  of  public  works  of  such  city,  if  any,  or  the  head 


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of  the  water  department  of  such  city,  shall  first  certify  to 
such  legislative  authorit}^  the  amount  that  will  be  neces- 
sary for  such  purposes,  and  shall  further  certify  that  the 
reA^enue  or  income  from  such  Avater  Avorks  Avill  be  insuffi- 
cient therefor : Provided  further,  that  tAvo  thirds  majority 
of  all  the  members  elect  of  the  legislatiA^e  authority  of  such 
city  may  iGvy  a tax  for  such  purposes,  not  to  exceed  three 
mills  on  each  dollar  of  the  taxable  property  of  such  city ; 
And  2^'f'ovided,  furthiv,  that  the  legislative  authority  of 
each  of  the  cities,  villages  and  incorporated  toAvns.  in  this 
state,  Avith  the  concurrence  of  tAvo-thirds  of  the  members 
thereof,  shall  be  authorized  to  levy,  and  collect  annually, 
upon  the  taxable  property  Avithin  its  limits,  in  addition  to 
all  other  taxes  noAV  authorized  by  laAV,  a tax  of  not  exceed- 
ing three  mills  on  the  dolLar  of  such  taxable  property  to  be 
used  exclusiA^ely  for  the  purpose  of  lighting  streets,  and  a 
further  tax  of  not  exceeding  tAVo  mills  on  the  dollar  of  such 
taxable  property  to  be  used  exclusively  for  the  purpose  of 
supplying  Avater  to  such  city,  village  or  incorporated 
town.  Provided,  also,  that  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  so 
construed  as  to  increase  the  amount  of  aofS'reo^ate  taxes  that 
may  be  levied  in  any  one  year  by  any  city  or  village,  as 
provided  in  section  one  (1), of  article  VIII  of  an  act  entitled 
“An  act  to  provide  for  the  incorporation  of  cities  and  vil- 
lages.” Approved  Apil  10,  1872. 

230.  Repeal, 

§ 3.  An  act,  entitled  “an  act  in  relation  to  the  levy  and 
collection  of  taxes  for  se Average  and  Avater  works  in  the 
cities  of  this  state,  that  may  have  established  a system  of 
seAverage  and  Avater  AVorks  for  such  city.”  Approved  and 
in  force  April  22,  1871,  is  hereby  repealed. 


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TAXES. 

AN  ACT  in  regard  to  the  assessment  and  collection  of  municipal  taxes.  [Ap- 
proved May  23,  1871.  In  force  July  1.  1877.  Laws  1877.] 

231.  TIow  May  be  Assessed  and  Collected. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  people  of  the  State  of  Illinois 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  Thiit  all  cities,  vil- 
lages and  incorporated  towns,  in  this  state  whether  organ- 
ized under  the  general  law  or  special  charter,  shall  asssess 
and  collect  their  taxes  in  the  manner  provided  for  in  article 
eight  (8)  of  the  act  entitled,  “An  act  to  provide  for  the  in- 
corporation of  cities  and  villages,'’  approved  April  10, 
1872,  and  in  the  manner  provided  for  in  the  general  rev- 
enue laws  of  this  state;  and  all  acts  or  parts  of  acts,  incon- 
sistent with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  are  hereby  repealed. 
[See  §§  112,  116,  also  “Eevenue,”  ch.  120,  § 122. 

[Note— Tins  act  in  etfect  repeals  that  ot  April  15,  1873,  See  R.  S.  1874,  p. 254 
The  act  of  May  5, 1877,  for  collection  of  back  taxes,  and  of  May  21  1877,  to  cure  de- 
fects in  water  assessment  are  omitted,  being  temporary. 


SURPLUS  FUND  OF  TAX. 

AN  ACT  to  prohibit  any  city,  town  or  village  in  this  state  from  receiving  from 
the  county  treasury  a greater  proportion  of  the  surplus  fund  or  tax  than  shall 
be  received  by  any  other  city,  town  or  village  within  the  same  county.  [Ap- 
proved May  4,  1877,  and  in  force  July  1, 1877.  Laws  1877,  p.  55.] 

232.  Proportion  OF  Tax. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois^ 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  no  city,  town  or 
village  within  any  county  in  this  state,  shall  be  entitled  to 
or  shall  receive  from  the  county  treasury  of  such  county 
any  greater  proportion  of  surplus  of  all  taxes  which  may 
be  collected  for  county  purposes,  than  any  other  city,  town 
or  village  within  the  county. 

233.  Drawback — Amount  City,  Etc.,  May  Receive. 

§ 2.  Nor  shall  any  such  city,  town  or  village  be  entitled 


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to,  or  receiv^e  from  the  comity  treasurer  any  greater  draw- 
back of  its  proportion  of  the  taxes  paid  into  the  comity 
treasury,  by  reason  of  any  appropriation  liy  the  comity 
board,  out  of  the  comity  treasury  for  the  making  and  re- 
pairing of  roads  and  highways,  the  building  and  repairing 
of  bridges  in  such  comity,  without  any  such  city,  town  or 
village  within  such  coimtyj  than  is  now  allowed  by  law  to 
all  other  cities,  towns  and  villages  within  the  same  comity. 
Any  acts,  or  parts  of  acts,  conflicting  with  this  act,  are 
hereby  repealed. 


REBATE  AND  REDUCTION  OF  TAXES,  ETC. 

AN  ACT  to  prevent  the  unjust  collection,  hy  incorporated  cities  and  towns,  of 
taxes  levied  upon  property  destroyed  by  tire,  and  to  authorize  the  common 
council  of  such  cities,  or  board  of  trustees  of  such  towns,  to  change  or  amend 
appropriation  bills,  to  pa^^s  new  appropriation  bills,  to  reduce  taxes  and  spec- 
ial assessments  in  certain  cases  and  to  discontinue  special  improvements. 
[Approved  and  in  force  Jannary  18, 1872.  L.  1871-2,  p.  270.] 

234.  itEBATE  When  Property  Destroyed. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  oj  Illinois^ 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly^  That  whenever,  in  any 
incorporated  city  or  town  in  this  state,  any  property  listed 
or  assessed  for  municipal  taxation,  shrll  have  been  or  shall 
hereafter  be  destroyed  by  Are,  in  whole  or  in  part,  before 
the  levy  of  the  municipal  taxes  of  such  city  thereon,  or  be- 
fore the  municipal  taxes  levied  thereon  shall  have  been 
collected,  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful  for  the  mayor  of  such 
city  or  town — if  there  be  no  mayor,  then  the  president  of 
the  board  of  trustees,  the  city  comptroller  if  there  be  one; 
and  if  not,  then  the  city  clerk  or  town  clerk,  and  the  tax 
commissioner,  if  there  should  be  one;  if  not,  then  the 
chairman  of  the  finance  committee  of  the  city  council  or 
b I of  trustees — to  rebate  or  remit  so  much  of  such  tax  or 


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ClTl"  OF  JOLIET. 


taxes,  so  levied  upon  such  property,  as  in  their  opinion 
should  be  rebated  or  remitted  by  reason  of  such  property 
having  been,  in  whole,  or  in  part  destroyed  by  fire. 

235.  Reduce  or  Release  Tax  or  Assessment. 

§ 2,  That  whenever,  in  any  incorporated  city  or  town 
in  this  state,  any  large  portion  of  the  taxable  property  of 
such  city  shall  have  been  or  shall  hereafter  be  destroyed  by 
fire,  so  as  to  seriously  impair  or  affect  the  ability  of  the 
property  owners  of  such  city  or  toAvn  to  pay  taxes  or  special 
assessments  thereon,  and  an  appropriation  bill  has  been 
made  or  passed,  or  special  improvements  ordered  before 
such  fire,  and  the  tax  or  assessment  for  the  payment  or 
raising  of  the  same  has  not  been  levied  or  collected,  it  may 
be  lawful  for  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  of  any 
such  town  to  alter,  revise,  change,  reduce  or  vacate  or  re- 
peal such  appropriation  bill,  or  any  part  of  the  same,  and 
to  order  the  discontinuance  of  said  special  improvements, 
or  any  of  the  same,  or  to  reduce  the  amount  of  taxes  or 
special  assessments  ordered  to  be  levied,  or  assessed,  or  col- 
lected for  any  general  or  special  purpose,  and  to  pass  a 
iieAV  appropriation  bill;  Avhich  new  appropriation  bill  shall 
have  the  same  force  Jind  effect  as  if  the  same  had  been 
passed  within  the  time  prescribed  by  the  charter  of  any 
such  city  or  such  corporate  town. 

236.  Emergency. 

§ 3.  Whereas  a large  amount  of  property  listed  for  tax- 
ation in  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  in  other  cities  and  towns 
ot  this  state,  has  been  destroyed  by  fire  before  the  taxes 
thereon  have  been  paid,  which  taxes  it  would  be  unjust  to 
collect,  it  is  declared  that  an  emergency  exists  that  this 
law  go  into  force  immediately,  and  therefore  it  is  enacted 
hat  this  law  shall  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 


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ANNEXING  AXI)  KXCLUDIXG  TERRITORY. 

AN  ACT  to  provide  for  anrexiii"  and  oxcludinj?  territory  to  and  from  cities, 

towns  and  villaj^es,  and  to  unite  cities,  towns  and  villages.  [Approved  April 

10, 1872.  In  force  July  1, 1872.  L,  1871-2,  p.  264.] 

237.  Petition  to  kk  Annexed — Annexing. 

§ 1.  ]h  it  ev acted  h\j  the  recycle  of  the  State  of  Illinois 
represented  in  the  General  As>^einhly,  That  on  petition,  in 
writin;:^,  signed  by  not  less  than  three-fourths  of  the  legal 
voters,  and  by  the  owners  ot  not  less  than  three-fourths 
(in  value)  of  the  property  in  any  territory  contiguous  to 
any  city  or  incorporated  village  or  town,  and  not  embraced 
within  its  limits,  the  city  council  or  board  of  trustees  ot 
said  city,  village  or  town  (as  the  case  may  be,)  may,  by  or- 
dinance annex  su(‘h  territory  to  such  city,  village  or  town, 
upon  the  filing  of  a co[>y  of  such  ordinance,  with  an  accurate 
map  of  the  territory  annexed  (duly  certified  by  the  mayor 
of  the  city  or  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  vil 
lage  or  town,)  in  the  office  of  the  recorder  of  deeds  in  the 
county  where  the  annexed  territory  is  situated,  and  having 
the  same  recorded  therein:  Provided^  that  no  portion,  less 
than  the  whole  of  an  incorporated  city,  town  or  village, 
shall  be  annexed  to  another  incorporated  city,  town  or  vil- 
lage, exce[)t  in  the  mode  provided  in  tliis  act  for  the  annex- 
ation of  the  whole  of  an  incorjiorated  city,  town  or  village, 
to  another  city,  town  or  village. 

238.  Annexing  One  Coupouation  to  Another, 

§ 2,  Any  incorporated  city,  village  or  town  may  be  an- 
nexed to  another  incorporated  city,  village  or  town,  by  or- 
dinance iiassed  by  a two-thirds  vote  ot  all  the  aldermen  or 
trustees  elect  of  each  corporation  desiring  annexation : Pro- 
vided^ such  annexation  shall  not  elfector  impair  any  rights 
or  liabilities  either  in  favorof  or  against  such  corporations; 
;'.:rl  suits  tVmnded  u[)On  such  ifights  and  liabilities  may  be 


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commenced,  and  pending  suits  may  be  prosecuted  and  car- 
ried to  final  judgments  and  execution,  the  same  as  if  such 
annexation  had  not  taken  place.  In  making  such  annexa- 
tion, the  corporations  so  uniting  may  by  ordinance,  fix  the 
terms  of  the  annexation,  which  shall  have  the  force  and 
eftect  of  a binding  contract:  Provided^  however^  that  no 
such  ordinance  shall  be  of  any  binding  force  or  effect  until 
submitted  to  a vote  of  the  legal  voters  of  such  city,  town 
or  village,  at  a general  election  thereof,  and  adopted  by  a 
majority  of  all  the  voters  voting  thereon  at  such  election, 
notice  of  Avhich  shall  be  given  at  the  same  time  and  in  the 
same  manner  as  required  for  the  election  of  the  officers  of 
such  city,  town  or  village:  And ^ provided^  that  the 
vote  shall  beby  ballot,  which  shall  be  “for  union  ordinance” 
or  “against  union  ordinance,”  and  shall  be  received,  can- 
vassed and  returned  the  same  as  ballots  for  municipal  offi- 
cers of  such  city,  town  or  village. 

Note.— Sections  3 to  8 inclusive,  of  this  act,  have  been  oinittei  under  the 
case  of  \he  City  of  Galesburg  vs.  Hawkinson.  75  111.  152. 

239,  Map  and  Ordinance  Recorded. 

§ 9.  When  any  territory  is  annexed  to  any  city,  village 
or  town,  as  provided  in  this  act,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
mayor  of  the  city,  or  the,  president  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  village  or  town,  (as  the  case  may  be,)  to  cause  an  ac- 
curate map  of  such  added  territory,  together  with  the  or- 
dinance for  the  annexation,  certified  by  such  mayor,  and  if 
a decree  or  order  of  the  court  has  been  made  therefor,  a 
copy  of  the  same,  to  be  filed  for  record  and  recorded  in 
the  recorder’s  office  for  the  county  in  which  such  added  ter- 
ritory is  situated.  If  territory  is  disconnected  or  excluded 
trom  any  city,  village  or  town,  a copy  of  the  ordinance  or 
decree  therefor  shall  be  so  filed  for  rf^cord  and  recorded. 


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24:0.  School  Districts. 

§ 10.  .Vll  school  districts,  and  other  corporations  incor- 
porated for  school  purposes  under  special  acts  of  the  legis- 
lature, desiring  to  annex  or  disannex  territory,  may  pro- 
ceed under  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

241.  J CDiciAL  Notice. 

§11.  All  courts  in  this  state  shall  take  judicial  notice 
of  cities,  towns  and  villages,  and  of  the  changes  of  their 
territory,  made  under  the  provisions  of  this  act. 


ISSUING  A AEKANTS  ON  COUNTY  TREASUREE,  ETC. 

4N  ACT  to  provide  for  the  immiier  of  issuing  warrants  upon  the  treasurer  of  any 
county,  township,  city,  school  district,  or  other  municipal  corporation  and  ju- 
rors’ certificates.  Approved  May  31st,  1879.  In  force  July  1,  1879.  L.  1879,  p 78. 

242.  When  Warrants  May  re  Drawn  on  County  Treasurer,  Etc. 
§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  Feoy^le  of  the  State  of  Illinois^ 

represented  in  the  General  Assemhly^  That  warrants  payable 
on  demand  shall  hereafter  be  drawn  and  issued  upon  the 
treasurer  of  this  state,  or  of  any  county,  township,  city, 
school  district,  or  other  municipal  corporation,  or  against 
any  fund  in  his  hands,  only  when  at  the  time  of  the  draw- 
ing and  issuing  of  such  warrants,  there  shall  lie  sufficient 
money  in  the  appropriate  fund  in  Ihe  treasury  to  pay  said 
warrants. 

243.  May  re  Issued  in  Anticipation  of  Taxes. 

§ 2.  That  whenever  there  is  no  money  in  the  treasury 
of  any  county,  township,  city,  school  district,  or  other  mu- 
nicipal corporation  to  meet  and  defray  the  ordinary  and 
necessary  expenses  thereof,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  proper 
authorities  of  any  county,  township,  city,  school  district,  or 
other  municijial  corporation  to  provide  that  warrants  may 


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be  drawn  and  issued  against  and  in  anticipation  of  the  col- 
lection of  any  taxes,  already  levied  by  said  authorities  for 
the  payment  of  the  ordinary  and  necessary  expenses  of  any 
such  municipal  corporation,  to  the  extent  of  seventy-live 
per  centum  of  the  total  amount  ot  said  tax  levy;  Provided, 
that  warrants  drawn  and  issued  under  the  provisions  of 
this  section  shall  show  upon  their  face  that  they  are  pay- 
able solely  from  said  taxes  when  collected,  and  not  other- 
wise, and  shall  be  received  b}^  any  collector  of  taxes  in 
payment  of  taxes  against  which  they  are  issued,  and  which 
taxes,  against  which  said  warrants  are  drawn,  shall  be  set 
apart  and  held  tor  their  payment. 

244.  Juror’s  Certificates. 

§ 3.  All  Juror’s  certificates  shall  hereafter  be  issued  in 
confonnity  with  the  provisions  of  this  act. 


WATER  WORKS. 

AN  ACT  authorizing  cities,  incorporated  towns  and  villages  to  construct  and 
* maintain  water  works.  [Approved  and  in  force  April  15,  1873.] 

245.  Power  to  Supplv  Water — Letting  Contract. 

§ 1 . Be  it  enacted  hy  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  all  cities,  incor- 
porated towns  and  villages  in  this  State  be  and  are  hereby 
authorized,  and  shall  have  power  to  provide  for  a supply  of 
Avater  for  the  purposes  of  fire  protection,  and  for  the  use  of 
the  inhabitants  of  such  cities,  incorporated  toAvns  or  vil- 
lages, by  the  erection,  construction  and  maintaining  of  a 
system  of  AvaterAVorks  or  by  uniting  with  any  adjacent 
city,  incorporated  toAvn  or  Aullage,  in  the  erection,  con- 
struction and  maintaining  of  a system  of  AvaterAA  orks  for 


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the  joint  use  of  such  cities,  incorporated  towns  or  villages, 
or  by  procuring  such  supply  of  water  from  any  adjacent 
city,  incorporated  town  or  village  already  having  water- 
works; Provided^  that  all  contracts  for  the  erection  or 
(‘onstrnction  of  such  works,  or  any  part  thereof,  shall  be 
let  to  the  lowest  responsible  bidder  therefor,  upon  not  less 
than  three  weeks’  public  notice  of  the  terms  and  conditions 
upon  which  the  contract  is  to  be  let  having  been  given,  by 
publication  in  a newspaper  published  in  such  city,  town, 
or  village;  or  if  no  newspaper  is  published  therein,  then 
in  some  newspaper  published  in  the  county;  And,  pi^ovided 
farther,  that  no  member  of  the  City  Council  or  Board  of 
Trustees,  or  Mayor,  shall  be  directly  or  indirectly  inter- 
ested in  any  such  contract ; and  in  all  cases  the  Council  or 
Board  of  Trustees,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall  have  the  right 
to  reject  any  or  all  bids  that  may  not  be  satisfactory  to 
them.  [As  amended  b}"  act  approved  and  in  force  May  14, 
1879.  L.  1879.  p.  04.] 

246.  Borrow  Money — Tax. 

§ 2.  Such  cities,  incorporated  towns  and  villages  may 
borrow  money  and  levy  and  collect  a general  tax  in  the 
same  manner  as  other  municipal  taxes  may  be  levied  and 
collected,  for  the  erection,  construction  and  maintaining  of 
such  waterworks,  and  appropriate  money  for  the  same. 

247.  May  Acquire  Property  for  Works,  Etc. 

§ 3.  For  the  purpose  of  erecting,  constructing,  locating, 
maintaining  or  supplying  such  water  works,  any  such  city, 
incorporated  town  or  village  may  go  beyond  its  territorial 
limits,  and  may  take,  hold  and  acquire  property  and  real 
estate,  by  purchase  or  otherwise;  and  shall  also  have  the 
power  to  take,  hold  and  acquire  and  condemn  any  and  all 


CITY  OF  JOLIET. 


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necessary  property  and  real  estate  for  the  location,  erec- 
tion, construction  and  maintaining’  of  such  water  Avorks,  in 
the  manner  provided  for  the  taking  and  condemning  of 
private  property  for  public  use;  and  may  also  acquire  and 
hold  real  estate  and  other  property  and  rights  necessary 
for  the  location,  erection,  construction  and  maintenance  of 
such  Avater  AVorks  by  purchase  or  otherAvdse;  and  the  juris- 
diction of  such  city,  toAvn  or  village  to  prevent  or  punish 
any  pollution  or  injury  to  the  stream  or  source  of  water  for 
the  supply  of  such  Avater  Avorks,  shall  extend  ten  miles 
beyond  its  corporate  limits. 

248.  Rules — Tax — Assessment — Lien. 

• 

§ 4.  The  Common  Council  of  such  cities,  or  Trustees  of 
such  toAvns  or  villages,  shall  have  power  to  make  and  en- 
force all  needful  rules  and  regulations  in  the  erection,  con- 
struction and  management  of  such  Avater  AVorks,  and  for 
the  use  of  Avater  supplied  b}^  the  same.  And  such  cities, 
towns  or  villages  shall  have  the  right  and  poAver  to  tax, 
assess  and  collect  from  the  inhabitants  thereof  such  tax, 
rent  or  rates  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  Avater  used  or  sup- 
plied to  them  by  such  water  AVorks,  as  the  Common  Council 
or  bojird  of  trustees,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall  deem  just 
and  expedient.  And  all  such  Avater  taxes,  rates  or  rents 
shall  be  a lien  upon  the  premises  and  real  estate  upon  or 
for  Avhich  the  same  is  used  or  supplied.  And  such  taxes, 
rent  or  rates  shall  be  paid  and  collected,  and  such  lien 
enforced,  in  such  manner  as  the  Common  Council  shall  by 
ordinance  direct  and  proAude. 

24^).  Special  Assessaient. 

§ 5.  The  expense  of  locating',  erecting'  and  constructing 
reservoirs  and  hydrants  for  the  purpose  of  fire  protection. 


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and  the  expense  of  eonstrncthio’  and  laying’  water  main 
pipes,  or  sneli  part  thereof  as  may  be  just  and  lawful,  may 
be  assessed  upon  and  eolleeted  from  the  property  and  real 
estate  specially  benefitted  thereby,  if  any,  in  snob  manner 
as  may  be  provided  for  the  making'  of  special  assessments 
for  other  public  improvements  in  such  cities,  towns  or 
villages. 

2.)0.  Separate  Taxes, 

§ ().  All  the  income  received  by  snch  cities,  towns  or 
villages  from  snch  water  works,  from  the  payment  and  col- 
lection of  water  taxes,  rents  or  rates,  shall  be  kept  in  a 
separate  fund,  and  shall  first  be  applied  in  the  payment  and 
discharge  of  the  costs,  interest  on  bonds,  or  money  bor- 
rowed and  used  in  the  erection  and  construction  of  such 
water  works  and  miming  expenses  thereof,  and  any  sur- 
plus may  be  applied  in  such  manner  as  the  Common  Coun- 
cil or  board  of  trustees  may  direct. 

S-ll.  When  Act  NOT  Apply. 

§ 7.  The  provisions  of  this  act  shall  not  apply  to  cities, 
towns  or  villages  in  which  water  works  are  now  managed 
or  controlled  by  a board  of  public  works. 


'2.>2.  Emergency. 

§ 8.  AVhereas,  many  ot  the  cities  embraced  in  this  act 
are  entirely  without  adequate  protection  from  fires,  and 
are  without  lawful  authority  to  provide  the  necessary 
means  of  protection  authorized  by  this  act;  therefore,  an 
emergency  exists  that  this  act  should  take  effect  immediate- 
ly; therefore,  this  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  passage. 


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AN  ACT  to  provide  for  the  laying  of  Water  Supply  Pipes  by  Bonds  and  Special  As- 
sessments, payable  in  installments.  [Approved  and  in  force,  March  17. 1874  ] 

253.  Bonds — assessments  payable  in  installments. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacte^i  hg  the  People  of  the  State  of  lUinois^ 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly^  That  whenever  the 
corporate  authorities  of  any  city,  town  or  village  shall'pro- 
vicle,  by  ordinance,  for  the  laying  of  Avater  supply  pipes,  to 
be  paid  for  by  a special  assessment  to  be  made  under  the 
provisions  of  article  nine  of  the  act  of  the  general  assem- 
bly, entitled  “An  act  to  provide  for  the  incorporation  of 
cities  and  villages,”  approved  April  10,  A.  D.  1872,  such 
corporate  authorities  may,  in  their  discretion,  provide  in 
such  ordinance,  or  by  an  ordinance  to  be  adopted  at  any 
time  prior  to  the  issuance  of  the  warrant  to  the  collector 
for  the  collection  of  such  assessment,  that  the  amount  of 
the  estimated  cost  of  such  improvement  shall  be  provided 
for  in  the  folloAviiig  manner,  to-Avit : That  bonds  of  the 

city,  toA\m  or  village,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall  be  issued  for 
such  portion  of  the  estimated  cost  of  such  improvement  as 
shall  be  apportioned  to  the  city,  toAvn  or  village  as  public 
lienefit,  payable  at  such  time  or  times,  within  tAventy  years, 
as  may  be  provided  by  said  ordinance,  or  it  may  in  such  or- 
dinance be  provided  that  all  or  any  portion  of  the  amount, 
so  apportioned  as  public  benefits,  may  be  made  by  general 
taxation  in  accordance  Avith  the  provisions  contained  in 
said  article  nine,  and  that  the  portion  of  sai d estimated  cost 
Avhich  shall  be  assessed  upon  property  specially  benehtted, 
shall  be  payable  in  such  annual  installments,  not  exceeding 
ten  in  number,  as  may  in  such  ordinance  be  prescribed: 
Provided^  that  nothing  in  this  section  shall  authorize  any 
city,  toAvn  or  village  to  issue  such  bonds  to  an  amount,  in- 
eludinii:  all  existing:  indebtedness,  in  e.Kcess  of  the  chartei* 


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statutory  or  constitutional  limitation  ot  the  indebtedness 
of  such  city,  town  or  village. 

254.  When  INSTALLMENTS  payable — INTEREST. 

§ 2.  Whenever  such  corporate  authorities  shall  have 
provided  by  ordinance  for  the  making  of  such  improvement 
in  the  manner  prescribed  in  section  one  of  this  act,  the  first 
installment  of  the  amount  assessed  upon  property  specially 
benefitted  shall  be  payable  immediately  upon  the  issuance, 
by  the  clerk  of  such  city,  town  or  village,  of  his  warrant 
to  the  collector,  and  the  subsequent  installments  shall  be 
payable  annually  thereafter,  with  interest  until  paid,  at 
such  rate  as  shall  be  prescribed  in  such  ordinance  not  ex- 
ceeding ten  per  cent  per  annum. 

255.  Applies  TO  assessments  already  ordered. 

§ 3.  This  act  shall  apply  to  assessments  already  ordered 
for  the  purpose  set  forth  in  section  1 of  this  act,  and  to  the 
ordinances  in  relation  thereto,  as  well  as  to  ordinances 
hereafter  to  be  adopted. 

25B.  Emergency. 

§ 4.  Whereas,  certain  cities,  towns  and  villages  are 
about  to  lay  water  supply  pipe,  and  are  desirous  of  availing 
themselves  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  therefore,  an  emer- 
gency is  declared  to  exist,  and  this  act  shall  take  effect  and 
be  in  force  trom  and  after  its  passage. 


AN  ACT  to  enable  cities  and  villages  to  contract  for  a supply  of  water  tor  public 
use,  and  to  levy  and  collect  a tax  to  pay  for  water  so  supplied.  [Approved  April 
9,  1872,  in  force  July  1,  1872.  L.  1871-2  p.  271.] 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  people  of  the  State  of  Illinois 
represented  in  the  General  AssemHy^  That  in  all  cities  and 


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villages  where  water  works  may  hereafter.  l>e  colis  true  ted 
l)y  ail  iiieorporated  company,  the  city  or  village  authorities 
ill  such  cities  and  villages  may  contract  with  such  incor- 
porated company  tor  a supply  of  water  for  public  use  for  a 
period  not  exceeding  thirty  years. 

258.  Tax. 

§ 2.  Any  such  city  or  village  so  contracting  may  levy 
and  collect  a tax  on  all  taxable  property  within  such  city 
or  village,  to  pay  for  the  water  so  supplied. 


OPERATING  WATER  WORKS. 

AN  ACT  to  aid  cities  owning  or  operating  water  works  to  secure  an  additional  or 
lietter  supply  of  pure  wax er.  [Approved  and  in  force  May  27,  1881-  L.  1881,  p. 
157.] 

250. 

§1.  7 je  it  enacted  hy  the  Pe'^ple  of  the  State  of  Illinois^ 

represented  in  thr,  General  Assembly^  That  all  cities  owning 
or  operating  water  works  under  any  charter  gTanted  by  act 
of  any  general  assembly  of  this  state,  or  under  the  general 
incorporation  laws  of  this  state,  whether  by  boards  of  Avater 
(‘ommissioners  or  by  officers  appointed  for  that  purpose, 
are  hereby  granted  the  following  powers  and  privileges  for 
the  purpose  of  increasing  or  bettering  the  source  of  supply 
from  Avhich  sucli  Avater  is  obtained. 

2G0.  Powers  of  boakd — may  raise  aioney — -a^ote. 

§ 2.  Whenever,  in  the  judgment  of  a majority  of  any 
board  of  Avater  commissioners,  or  if  there  be  no  such  board, 
then  in  the  judgment  of  the  majority  of  the  city  council  ot 
any  city  owning  or  operating  such  Avater  Arorks,  it  shall 
be  necessary  for  the  pulilic  health,  or  for  an}*  other  cause. 


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to  increase  the  source  of  water  supply,  or  to  substitute  for 
it  such  better  source  as  in  their  judgment  the  interests  of 
such  city  may  demand,  such  board  of  water  commissioiiers 
or  city  council  may,  in  addition  to  the  powers  already  con- 
ferred upon  them  by  act  of  any  general  assembly  of  this 
state,  construct  wells  either  by  boring  or  excavation  and 
protect  and  etpaip  the  same  after  construction  or  may  lease 
water  privileges,  from  private  parties  or  corporations  own- 
ing wells  already  or  hereafter  to  be  constructed,  and  may 
l)ay  for  such  construction  or  lease  and  for  the  expenses 
maintained  in  operating  the  same  out  of  any  earnings  of 
such  water  works  under  their  control  which  may  be  in 
their  hands  at  the  time  of  the  taking  effect  of  this  act,  or 
which  may  accrue  to  them  hereafter;  Provided^  that  no 
money  shall  be  expended  under  the  provisions  of  this  act 
for  the  purposes  herein  specified  until  the  question  of  the 
expenditure  of  such  money  for  the  purposes  aforesaid  shall 
have  been  submitted  to  a vote  of  the  people  of  the  city  in 
which  such  water  works  may  be  situated,  at  any  election 
for  city  officers  or  special  election  called  tor  that  purpose  by 
the  city  council  of  said  city,  and  shall  have  secured  a ma- 
jority of  the  votes  cast  at  such  election:  Provided  further  ^ 

that  no  money  shall  be  expended  under  the  provisions  of 
this  act  for  the  purpose  aforesaid  other  than  the  surplus 
earnings  of  such  water  works. 

Emergency. 

§ 3.  (Omitted.) 

VACATION  OF  STKEETS,  ALLEYS  AND  HIGHWAYS. 

AN  ACT  to  revise  the  law  in  relation  to  the  vacation  of  streets  and  alleys.  [Aj> 
proved  March  24th,  1874.  In  force  July  1,  1874.] 

261.  Three-fourths  VOTE  required — Damages. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  IHinois^ 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly^  That  no  city  council  of 


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any  city,  or  board  of  trustees  of  any  village  or  town,  wheth- 
er incorporated  by  special  act  or  under  any  general  law, 
shall  have  power  to  vacate  or  close  any  street  or  alley,  or 
any  portion  of  the  same,  except  under  a three-fourths  ma- 
jority of  all  the  aldermen  of  the  city  or  trustees  of  the  vil- 
lage or  town  authorized  by  law  to  be  elected ; such  vote  to 
be  taken  by  ayes  and  noes,  and  entered  on  the  records  of  the 
council  or  board.  And  when  property  is  damaged  by  the 
vacation  or  closing  of  any  street  or  alley,  the  same  shall 
be  ascertained  and  paid  as  provided  by  law. 

262.  Rights  of  adjoining  owners. 

§ 2.  When  any  street,  alley,  lane  or  highway,  or  any  part 
thereof,  has  been  or  shall  be  vacated  under  or  by  virtue  of 
any  act  of  this  state  or  by  order  of  the  city  council  of  any 
city,  or  trustees  of  any  village  or  town,  or  by  the  commis- 
sioners of  highways,  county  board,  or  otlier  authority  au- 
thorized to  vacate  the  same,  the  lot  or  tract  of  land  immed- 
iately adjoining  on  either  side  shall  extend  to  the  central 
line  of  such  street,  alley,  lane  or  highway  or  part  thereof  so 
vacated,  unless  otherwise  specially  provided  in  the  act,  or- 
dinance or  order  vacating  the  same,  unless,  in  consequence 
of  more  of  the  land  for  such  street,  alley,  lane  or  highway 
having  been  contributed  from  the  land  on  one  side  thereof 
than  the  other,  such  division  is  inequitable,  in  which  case 
the  street,  alley,  lane  or  higliAvay  so  vacated  shall  be  di- 
vided according'  to  the  equities  of  the  adjoining  owner.  [L. 

1865,  p.  130,  § 1. 

BRIDGES. 

AN  ACT  to  enable  cities  and  villages  to  build,  acquire  and  maintain  bridges  and 

ferries,  outside  of  their  corporate  limits,  and  to  control  the  same.  [Approved 

and  in  force  May  5,  '.879 .] 

263.  May  Construct  Ferries  and  Bridges. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  Pe^^^yyle  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
represented  in,  the  General  Assembly,  That  it  shall  be  law- 


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fill  for  any  city  or  village  within  the  state  to  build  or  ac- 
quire by  purchase,  lease  or  gift,  -and  to  maintain  ferries 
and  bridges,  and  the  approaches  thereto,  not  exceeding 
four  acres  of  land  for  each  ferry  or  bridge  within  the  cor« 
porate  limits,  or  at  any  point  within  five  miles  of  the  cor- 
porate limits  of  such  city  or  village.  That  all  such  ferries 
and  bridges  shall  be  free  to  the  public,  and  that  no  toll 
shall  ever  be  collected  by  any  such  city  or  village  au- 
thority. 

264.  Control  by  City, 

§ 2.  Every  bridge  and  ferry  so  owned  or  controlled  by 
such  city  or  village,  and  the  approaches  thereto,  when  out- 
side of  the  corporate  limits,  shall  be  subject  to  the  munici- 
pal control  and  ordinances  of  such  city  or  village,  the  same 
to  all  intents  and  purposc^s,  and  in  effect  as  though  such 
bridge  or  ferry  and  the  approaches  thereto,  were  situated 
within  the  corporate  limits  of  such  city  or  village,  and  in 
such  case,  the  county  may  assist  in  the  construction  of  said 
bridge,  as  is  now  provided  by  law. 

265.  Emergency. 

§ 3.  Whereas,  certain  cities  in  this  state  have  built 
bridges  outside  of  their  corporate  limits,  over  which  they 
have  no  police  control;  therefore  an  emergency  exists,  and 
this  act  shall  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 


AN  A.CT  to  regulate  the  manner  of  travel  upon  bridges,  the  whole  or  a part  of 
which  are  owned  or  controlled  by  cities,  villages  and  towns  of  this  state,  and 
to  provide  for  the  enforcing  of  the  same.  [Approved  and  in  force  May  13,  1879. 

266.  Penalty  for  Fast  Driving,  Etc. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois^ 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  whoever  shall 


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ride  or  drive  faster  than  a walk  over  any  bridge  in  this 
state,  owned  or  controlled,  either  the  whole  or  a part 
thereof,  by  any  city,  village  or  town  of  this  state,  shall  for 
each  offense  be  fined  in  a sum  not  exceedino-  ten  dollars  nor 

O 

less  than  one  dollar:  Provided^  that  a notice  shall  be 

posted  on  such  bridge,  warning  against  riding  or  driving 
on  such  bridge  faster  than  a walk,  such  line  to  be  recovered 
with  costs,  before  any  justice  of  the  peace  or  police  magis- 
trate of  the  county  wdiere  the  ofteiise  is  committed,  upon 
sworn  complaint  in  writing,  upon  which  a warrant  for  the 
arrest  of  the  offender  shall  issue,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
ever}^  constable  of  the  county,  and  ever  marshal,  police- 
man and  police  constable,  and  all  other  officers  of  such  city, 
village  or  town,  owning  or  controlling  the  whole  or  in  part 
such  bridge,  having  the  power  to  make  arrests,  whenever 
aforesaid  offense  is  committed  in  the  view  of  such  officer  or 
officers,  to  forthwith  take  in  custody  the  person  or  persons 
so  committing  aforesaid  offense,  and  bring*  him  or  them  be- 
fore any  justice  of  the  peace  or  police  magistrate  of  the 
county,  to  be  dealt  with  according  to  law,  and  such  officer 
so  taking*  in  custody  such  offender,  or  any  officer  of  such 
city,  village  or  town,  owning  or  controlling  the  whole  or  a 
part  of  such  bridge  where  such  offense  is  committed,  may 
make  the  complaint  upon  which  warrant  shall  issue  against 
the  offender.  All  fines  collected  under  this  act,  shall  be 
paid  into  the  common  school  fund  of  the  county.  Wheveas^ 
the  law  is  inadequate  for  the  protection  of  bridges  which 
are  owned  or  controlled,  the  whole  or  part  thereof,  by  cities 
villages  and  towns  of  this  state,  therefore  an  emergency 
exists,  and  this  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its  pas- 


sage. 


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CITY  BOUNDARIES. 

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Charter  of  the  City  of  Joliet.  [Approved  March  1,  18H7; 

Private  Laws,  1867,  p.  619. 

267. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  lllmow^ 
• represented  in  the  General  Assembly^  That  section  one  of 
chapter  one,  of  the  charter  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  be  so 
amended  that  the  boundaries  of  said  city  shall  be  described 
as  follows,  to-wit:  That  all  of  sections  nine,  ten,  fifteen 
and  sixteen,  in  township  thirty-five,  north  range  ten,  east 
of  the  third  principal  meridian,  except  that  part  of  section 
fifteen  (15),  lying  south  and  east  of  the  center  of  Hickory 
creek,  and  that  part  of  said  sections  ten  and  fifteen  (10  and 
15),  lying  east  of  the  center  of  Spring  creek,  and  also  ex- 
cepting the  east-half  of  the  east-half  of  section  ten  (10), 
the  boundaries  shall  also  include  the  south-half  of  the  south- 
half  of  section  four  (4),  township  thirty-five  north,  range 
ten,  east  of  the  third  principal  meridian. 


SCHOOLS. 

PRIVATE  LAAVS  OF  1857,  PAGES  219,  220,  221. 

Seo.  1.  City  divided  into  two  districts. 

Boundaries  of. 

“ 2,  Inspectors.  Election  of. 

“ 3.  School  property  vested  in  the  city. 

■“  4.  Council  have  power  — 

1.  To  erect  school  houses. 

2.  To  buy  or  condemn  sites  and  lots  for  school  houses. 

3.  To  furnish  school  houses  with  necessai-y  fixtures. 

4.  To  maintain  schools. 

5.  To  fix  compensation  of  teachers. 

6.  To  prescribe  school  books,  etc. 

7.  To  prescribe  the  duties  of  the  board  of  school  inspectors. 

8.  To  demand  of  the  treasurer  of  school  fund  of  T.  35,  R.  10 

E.  certain  portion  of  said  .school  fund. 

9.  General  powem. 

5.  Inspectors,  duties  of 

**  6.  Additions  to  city  for  school  purposes . 

City  to  levy  taxes,  etc. 

Separate  ballot  boxes  to  be  provided. 


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26S. 

§ 1.  The  city  of  Joliet  shall  be  divided  into  two  school 
districts,  as  follows:  All  that  portion  of  the  city  lying 

west  of  the  DesPlaines  river,  shall  constitute  school  dis- 
trict number  one,  and  all  that  lying  east  of  said  river  shall 
constitute  district  number  two. 

269. 

§ 2.  There  shall  be  elected  at  the  first  election  held  un- 
der this  act,  three  school  inspectors  in  each  school  district; 
one  in  each  district  to  hold  his  office  one  year;  one  two 
years;  and  one  three  years,  to  be  determined  by  lot,  so  that 
one  inspector  shall  be  elected  in  each  district  in  each  year 
thereafter,  to  hold  his  office  for  three  years. 

270. 

§ 3.  That  all  buildings,  lots,  and  property  belonging  to 
the  several  school  districts  within  the  jurisdiction  of  said 
city,  are  hereby  vested  in  said  city  for  school  purposes. 

271. 

§ 4.  The  city  council  shall  have  power: 

First — To  build,  erect,  repair,  purchase,  hire  or  lease, 
I>uildiiigs  for  school  houses  and  other  school  purposes. 

Second — To  buy,  condemn  and  appropriate,  or  lease 
sites  and  lots  for  school  houses  and  the  necessary  grounds. 

Third — To  furnish  schools  and  school  houses  with  the 
necessary  library,  furniture,  apparatus,  fixtures,  appurte- 
nances and  conveniences. 

Fourth — To  establish  and  maintain  schools,  and  to  levy 
and  collect  taxes  for  the  payment  of  teachers,  and  all  other 
expenses  necessary  for  the  proper  support  of  such  schools. 

Fifth — To  fix  the  amount  or  compensation  to  be  allowed 
to  teachers. 


STATUTES. 


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i^iXTH — To  prescribe  the  school  hooks  to  be  used,  and  the 
studies  to  be  taught  in  the  different  schools. 

Seventh — To  prescribe  the  duties  of  the  board  of  school 
inspectors. 

Eighth — To  demand  and  receive  from  the  trustees  of 
schools  of  township  thirty-five  north,  range  ten,  in  the 
county  of  Will,  and  from  the  treasurer  of  the  school  fund 
of  said  township,  semi-annually  such  portion  of  the  inter- 
est of  said  school  fund  and  such  other  funds  as  the  school 
districts  ot  said  city  or  the  schools  therein,  are  now  or 
hereafter  may  be  by  law  entitled  to  receive. 

Ninth — And  generally  have  and  possess  all  the  rights, 
powers  and  authority  necessary  for  the  proper  regulation 
and  management  of  schools  in  said  city,  and  to  enact  and 
enforce  such  ordinances,  by-laws  and  regulations,  as  may 
be  necessary  to  carry  their  powers  and  duties  into  effect. 

272, 

§ 5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  school  inspec- 
tors on  or  before  the  last  Tuesday  in  each  school  year,  to 
publish  in  the  corporation  newspaper,  a full  report  of  the 
number  of  pupils  instructed  in  the  year  preceeding ; the  sev3 
eral  branches  of  education  pursued  by  them ; the  amount 
paid  to  each  teacher;  the  incidental  expenses  of  each 
school,  and  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  the  respective 
schools,  specifying  the  sources  of  such  receipts,  and  the  ob- 
ject of  such  expenditures. 

273. 

§ 6.  That  all  that  part  of  section  three,  which  is  east  of 
the  Des  Plaines  river,  the  whole  of  section  two,  the  west 
half  of  section  eleven,  the  east  quarter  ot  section  ten,  in 
township  thirty-five  north,  range  ten,  east  of  the  third 


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principal  meridian,  be,  and  the  same  are,  added  to,  and 
made  a part  of  school  district  No.  two*  and  section  four, 
and  that  part  of  section  three  lying  west  of  the  Des  Plaines 
river  in  the  same  township,  is  hereliy  added  to,  and  made  a 
part  of  school  district  No.  onef  in  said  city  of  Joliet,  for 
school  purposes  and  no  other,  and  the  said  city  is  hereby 
fully  authorized  and  empowered  to  levy  and  collect  taxes, 
on  all  property  of  all  kinds  in  said  territory  hereby  an- 
nexed, the  same  as  in  other  parts  of  said  city,  for  the  erect- 
ing buildings,  leasing  and  repairing  school  houses,  and 
furnishing  the  same,  purchasing  libraries  and  the  neces- 
sary apparatus  therefor,  the  support  and  maintenance  of 
schools,  and  for  all  other  school  purposes,  and  tor  no  other 
purpose;  and  to  have  and  exercise  all  necessary  jurisdic- 
tion over  said  territory,  and  the  property,  and  rights  of 
property  therein,  fully  to  carry  out  and  into  effect  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section ; and  the  legal  voters  of  said  territo- 
ries hereby  attached,  are  hereby  authorized  to  vote  tor 
school  inspectors  of  said  city,  in  any  ward  ot  said  city,  in 
their  respective  school  districts,  and  are  hereby  declared 
eligible  to  the  office  of  school  inspectors  in  their  respective 
school  districts.  Separate  ballot  boxes  for  each  ward  shall 
be  provided,  in  which  the  inspectors  of  election  shall  re- 
ceive all  votes  cast  for  school  inspectors,  the  names  for 
which  shall  be  on  a separate  ticket. 


AN  ACT  to  extend  the  jurisdictior  of  the  City  of  Joliet  for  school  purposes.  Ap- 
proved Februaiy  16,  1865. 

Sec  1.  Addition  to  the  city  for  school  purposes. 

S.  E.  quarter  section  5 added. 

§ 1.  Be  it  enacted  ly  the  people  of  the  State  of  Illinois 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  the  south  east 

NOTES.“*Section  6 amended.  See  post  section  221,  323. 
tSection  6 amended . See  post  section  218. 


STATUTES. 


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quarter  of  section  number  live  in  township  number  thirty- 
live,  and  range  nnmber  ten,  in  the  county  of  AYill  and  state 
of  Illinois,  be  added  to  the  city  of  Joliet  for  school  pur- 
poses, and  for  no  other  purposes,  and  tlie  inhabitants  there- 
of to  have  like  rights  and  franchises,  and,  be  subject  to  like 
duties  and  taxes  in  all  school  matters  with  the  other  in- 
habitants of  said  city. 

275. 

§ 2.  This  act  shall  be  in  force  and  take  effect  from  and 
after  its  passage. 


AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Charter  of  the  City  of  Joliet,  Approved  March  1, 1867.  Pr. 
L.  1867,  pp  619  and  621. 

Sec  2.  Council  to  levy  tax. 

10.  Addition  for  school  purposes. 

276. 

§ 1.  Be  it  en/acted  hy  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly:  1st.  That  article  sec- 
ond, of  section  one,  of  chapter  live  be  so  amended  as  to 
read  as  follows,  to-wit:  To  annually  levy  and  collect  a 
school  tax,  not  exceeding  ten  mills  on  the  dollar,  on  all 
real  and  personal  estate,  to  meet  the  expenses  of  purchas- 
ing grounds  for  school  houses,  for  building  and  repairing 
school  houses,  and  supporting  and  maintaining  schools. 

277. 

§ 10.  That  that  part  of  the  north  east  quarter  of  section 
twenty-one,  township  thirty-live  north,  range  ten  east, etc., 
which  lies  east  of  the  Chicago  & St.  Louis  Kailroad,  be  and 
the  same  is  added  to,  and  made  a part  of,  school  district 
No.  two  (2)  in  the  city  of  Joliet,  in  Will  county. 

278. 

§ 11.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  coming  in  conllict  with 
provisions  of  this  act  are  hereby  repealed. 


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This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  alter 
its  passage. 


AN  ORDINANCE  under  the  act  of  April  10,  1872.  Sections  1 and  10,  Rev.  Statutes 
of  1874,  [pp.  Ill  and  112  of  this  compilation.]  Passed  and  approved  March  14,1877 

279. 

Be  it  ordained  hy  the  City  Council  of  the  City  of  Joliet^ 

§ 1 . That  that  part  of  the  south  half  of  section  fifteen 
(15),  in  township  thirty-five  (35)  north,  and  of  range  ten 
10)  east  (of  the  third  P.  M.,  which  lies  south  of  Hickory 
creek,  (except  the  southeast  quarter  of  the  southeast  quarter 
of  said  section),  be,  and  it  is  hereby  annexed  to  school  dis- 
trict No.  2,  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  for  school  purposes. 


ORDINANCES. 


AN  ORDINANCE  IN 

Revision  of  The  General  Ordinances, 

-;OF  THE:— 


CITY  OF  JOLIET, 


Be  it  ordained  hy  the  City  Council  of  the  City  of  Joliet: 


CHAPTER  I. 

ANIMALS,  POUND  AND  POUND  KEEPERS. 


Sec.  1.  Animals  running  at  large. 

2.  Penalty  for. 

3.  Duty  ot  officers  in  this  chapter. 

4.  If  defendant  not  found,  case  continued. 

5.  When  proceeds  of  sale  exceed  judgment. 

6.  Before  sale,  owners  may  redeem. 

7.  Penalty  for  breaking  open  city  pound. 

8.  Penalty  for  hindering  an  officer. 

9 . Bridewell  keeper  to  be  poundmaster. 

10.  Poundmaster  keep  register. 

§ 1.  That  it  shall  he  unlawful  for  any  swine,  mule, 
horse,  sheep  or  goat  to  run  at  large  within  the  limits  of 
the  city  of  Joliet ; and  it  shall  also  he  unlawful  for  neat 
cattle  to  rim  at  large  within  the  limits  of  said  city,  hetweeii 
the  hours  of  eight  o’clock  in  the  atternoon  and  five  o’clock 
in  the  morning,  and  such  running  at  large  is  hereby 
declared  a nuisance. 


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§ 2.  If  any  person  shall  suffer  or  allow  any  swine,  horse, 
mule,  neat  cattle,  sheep  or  goat  to  run  at  large  in  the  city 
of  Joliet,  in  violation  of  the  ioregoing  section,  such  person 
or  persons  shall  be  deemed  the  author  of  such  nuisance  as 
mentioned  in  the  said  section,  and  on  conviction  shall  be 
subject  to  a line  of  not  less  than  two  dollars  and  not  more 
than  twenty-five  dollars,  and  costs  of  suit  for  each  and 
every  offense. 

§ 3.  If  any  swine,  horse,  mule,  neat  cattle,  sheep  or 
goat  shall  be  found  running  at  large  within  the  limits  of 
the  city  of  eJoliet  at  a t:me  when  they  are  prohibited  from 
being  at  large  by  this  ordinance,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  superintendent  of  streets,  poundm  ister  or  police  officer 
or  officers  to  take  up  said  swine,  horse,  mule,  neat  cattle, 
sheep  or  goat,  and  put  them  into  the  common  pound,  and 
thereupon  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  magistrate  or 
justice  of  the  peace  on  complaint  made,  to  issue  a warrant 
against  the  owner  or  owners  of  said  swine,  horse,  mule, 
neat  cattle,  sheep  or  goat,  as  in  other  ca-es,  and  upon 
return  of  said  warrant,  the  fact  of  said  animals  rnnning  at 
large  shall  be  tried  and  proceedings  be  had  as  in  other 
cases  before  said  police  magistrate;  and  in  case  it  shall  be 
found  by  the  court  or  jury  that  the  said  swine,  horse,  mule, 
neat  cattle,  sheep,  or  goat  were  found  running  at  large  in 
the  city  of  Joliet,  by  permission  of  the  said  defendant,  the 
court  shall  assess  a fine  in  accordance  with  Section  Two  of 
this  chapter,  and  as  a part  of  said  judgment  the  court  shall 
make  an  order  that  the  said  officer  or  officers  shall  sell  said 
animals  at  public  sale,  upon  first  publishing  notice  thereof 
in  the  corporation  newspaper  for  one  week,  to  the  highest 
bidder  for  cash,  to  satisfy  said  judgment  and  costs:  Pro- 


ANIMALS. 


133 


videdy  said  judgment  and  costs  are  not  paid  by  said 
defendant. 

§ 4.  In  case  the  said  warrant  shall  be  returned  by  said 
officer  “the  defendant  not  found,”  the  case  shall  be  con- 
tinued until  publication  of  notice  of  said  suit,  which  publi- 
cation shall  be  for  one  Aveek  in  said  newspaper,  and  at  the 
end  of  such  time,  proceedings  shall  be  had  as  in  Section 
Three. 

§ 5.  When  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  any  SAvine,  horse, 
mule,  neat  cattle,  sheep  or  goat  shall  exceed  the  amount 
of  judgment  and  costs,  and  expense  of  taking  up  and  sus- 
tenance, it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  officer  so  selling,  to 
pay  into  the  cit}^  treasury  such  surplus,  and  the  oAvner  or 
OAAUiers  of  the  animals  so  sold,  shall  be  entitled  to  a av ar- 
rant on  city  treasury  for  such  excess,  upon  presenting  to 
the  mayor  and  city  clerk  satisfactory  evidence  of  his  rights 
thereto. 

§ 6.  At  any  time  before  the  sale  of  any  animal  or  ani- 
mals impounded,  the  owner  or  oAvners  thereof  may  redeem 
the  same  by  paying  to  the  pound-keeper  the  impounding 
fee  and  costs  of  sustenance,  as  prescribed  in  this  ordinance, 
and  in  case  proceedings  shall  have  been  instituted  before 
a judicial  officer,  the  cost  of  such  proceedings  and  the 
amount  of  the  judgement  if  judgement  shall  have  been  re- 
covered under  this  ordinance,  together  Avith  subsequent 
accrued  costs  of  sustenance,  shall  be  the  redemption  money 
to  be  paid. 

§ 7.  If  any  person  shall  break  open,  or  in  any  manner 
directly  or  indirectly  aid  or  assist  in^  or  counsel  or  advise 
breaking  open  any  city  pound  for  said  animals  found  run- 
ning at  large,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a penalty  of  not  less 


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thiiii  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars  for  such 
offense. 


§ 8.  No  person  shall  hinder,  delay  or  obstruct  any  officer 
eng-aged  in  taking  to  any  city  pound,  any  animal  liable  to 
be  impounded,  under  a penalty  of  not  less  than  three  dol- 
lars, nor  more  than  ten  dollars,  for  each  offense. 

\ 

§ 9.  The  bridewell-keeper  shall  be  the  pound  keeper, 
and  shall  receive  for  each  animal  put  into  said  pound,  the 
sura  of  twenty-five  cents,  and  shall  be  allowed  by  the  court 
a reasonable  charge  for  the  care  and  keeping  of  said  swine, 
horse,  mule,  neat  cattle,  sheep  or  goat,  and  that  the  per- 
son catching  such  animals  shall  be  allowed  twenty-five 
cents  when  such  person  is  not  an  officer  of  the  city.  Dur- 
ing the  stay  of  any  animal  in  the  pound,  he  shall  feed  and 
water  the  same,  the  costs  of  which,  as  also  the  impounding 
fees  the  claimant  of  such  animal  shall  pay  to  the  pound- 
keeper  before  such  animal  shall  be  released. 

§ 10.  The  poundmaster  shall  keep  a book  which  shall 
be  open  to  the  inspection  of  any  and  all  persons,  in  which 
he  shall  record  a description  of  all  animals  impounded, 
with  date  of  the  impounding  of  each  and  the  owner’s  name 
if  known,  and  also  a statement  of  what  disposition  is  made 
of  such  animal,  when  and  by  whom  redeemed,  or,  in  case 
of  sale,  the  date  of  sale  and  the  name  of  the  purchaser 
and  the  amount  received  therefor ; and  said  poundkeeper 
slndl  within  thirty  days  after  every  sale  of  animals,  as 
herein  provided,  pay  into  the  city  treasury  all  moneys 
received  by  him  in  excess  of  the  costs,  fees  and  expenses 
allowed  in  this  chapter. 


ARRESTS. 


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CHARTER  II. 


AKRESTS. 

Sec.  1 . Ai-rests  may  be  made  without  Avarrant. 

2.  Arrests  regulated ; appearance,  and  Avhere. 

3.  VVlien  defendant  is  drunk  to  be  confined  till  sober;  n»agistrate 

may  confine  till  sober. 

4.  Resisting  or  obstructing  cfiicers:  penalty  for. 

5.  Penalty  for  false  representation  as  an  officer. 

§ 1.  That  ill  cases  arising  under  any  of  the  ordinances 
of  said  city,  the  mayor,  chief-of-police,  policemen,  aldermen 
and  watchmen  or  any  conservator  of  the  peace,  are  hereby 
authorized  and  it  shall  be  their  duty  to  arrest,  with  or  with- 
out process,  and  take  before  any  police  magistrate  or  justice 
of  the  peace  of  said  city,  any  person  or  persons  Avho  shall 
break  the  peace  or  be  found  violating  any  ordinance  of  this 
city,  and  said  officers  or  any  of  them,  are  hereby  authorized 
and  it  shall  be  their  duty  to  arrest  without  warrant,  and  take 
before  such  magistrate  any  person  or  persons  for  an  actual 
or  alleged  violation  of  any  ordinance  of  said  city  where 
there  is  danger  of  the  offender  escaping  before  a Avarrant 
can  be  procured,  and  any  of  said  officers  shall  if  they 
deem  the  same  necessary,  Avhether  acting  under  or  Avithout 
AA^arrant,  execution,  or  ca  sa,  call  to  their  aid  or  assistance 
any  person  or  persons  over  the  age  of  tAventy-one  years, 
and  any  person  or  persons  who  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to 
give  such  aid  and  assistance  when  called  upon  by  aiiA^  of 
said  officers,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor 
more  than  tAventy-five  dollars. 

§ 2.  That  whenever  any  person  or  persons  shall  be 
arrested  by  any  officer  authorized  to  make  arrests  in  said 
city,  for  a breach  of  any  ordinance  of  said  city  now  in 
force,  or  that  may  hereafter  be  jiassed,  after  the  hour  of 


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seven 'o'clock,  P.  M.,  between  the  first  clay  of  April  and  the 
first  day  of  October,  or  after  the  hour  of  five  o’clock  P.  M., 
between  the  first  day  of  October  and  the  first  day  of  April, 
it  shall  be  lawful  tor  the  said  officer  to  confine  the  offender 
in  the  city  bridewell  in  said  city,  and  the  keeper  of  said 
bridewell  is  hereby  authorized  and  recpiired  to  receive  such 
offender  or  offenders,  there  to  remain  until  the  hour  of 
nine  o’clock  the  succeeding  day,  when  it  shall  be  the  dut}" 
of  said  officer  to  carry  such  offender  before  a police  magis- 
trate or  justice  of  the  peace,  of  said  city,  to  be  dealt  with 
according  to  law  and  the  ordinances  of  said  city:  Provided^ 
That  if  said  offender  shall  be  arrested  after  the  above 
hours  on  Saturday  night,  or  at  any  time  on  Sunday,  he 
shall  remain  in  confinement  or  in  the  custody  of  said  offi- 
cer or  officers,  until  the  hour  of  nine  o’clock  on  Monday 
morning,  when  he  shall  be  taken  before  a police  magis- 
trate or  justice  of  the  peace,  and  be  dealt  with  as  is  or  may 
be  provided  by  ordinance. 

§ 3.  In  all  cases  where  any  person  or  persons  shall 
hereafter  be  arrested,  with  or  without  warrant,  for  a 
breach  of  any  ordinance  of  said  city  now  in  force,  or  that 
may  hereafter  be  passed,  and  such  person  or  persons  shall, 
at  the  time  of  his  or  her  arrest  be  drunk  or  intoxicated, 
the  officer  making  the  arrest  shall  convey  the  person  or 
persons  arrested  to  the  city  bridewell  or  some  other  secure 
place  of  confinement  in  said  city,  and  there  detain  him  or 
her  or  them  until  such  person  or  persons  shall  be  perfectly 
sober ; and  it  shall  then  be  the  duty  of  the  officer  making 
the  arrest  to  take  such  offender  before  a police  magistrate 
or  justice  of  the  peace,  to  be  dealt  with  according  to  law 
and  the  ordinances  of  said  city.  And  any  officer  who  shall 
fail  to  take  such  offender  before  a police  magistrate  or  jus- 


AK  RESTS. 


137 


tice  of  the  peace,  shall  he  suspended  in  his  official  duties 
bv  the  eonneil.  And  the  police  nia^'istratc  or  jnstiee  of 
the  peace  of  said  city  shall  also  have  power  and  authority 
to  order  any  person  to  be  detained  in  custody  in  the  man- 
ner and  for  the  time  aforesaid,  who  shall  be  brought  before 
them  charged  with  the  violation  or  breach  of  any  ordinance, 
and  who  at  the  time  of  his  appearance  shall  be  drunk  or 
intoxicated. 

§ 4.  Whoever  shall  hinder,  obstruct,  resist,  interrupt 
or  interfere  with,  or  aid,  encourage  or  countenance  another 
person  in  hindering,  obstructing,  resisting,  interrupting 
or  interfering  with  any  officer  of  said  city  in  the  discharge 
of  his  official  duties,  or  shall  rescue,  or  attempt  to  rescue 
from  any  such  officer  any  person  in  his  custody,  or  shall 
prevent,  or  attempt  to  prevent  any  such  officer  from  arrest- 
ing any  person,  or  shall  hinder,  obstruct,  resist,  interrupt 
or  interfere  with  any  person  called  upon  or  authorized  by 
any  such  officer  to  aid  him  in  making  an  arrest,  or  to  assist 
him  in  his  official  duties,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a mis- 
demeanor, and,  on  conviction  shall  forfeit  and  pay  not  less 
than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  tor 
every  oftense. 

§ 5.  Whoever  shall  in  this  city  falsely  represent  himself 
to  be  an  officer  of  this  city,  or  shall  Avithout  being  duly 
authorized  by  the  city,  exercise  or  attempt  to  exercise  any 
of  the  duties,  functions  or  i)OAvers  of  a city  officer,  shall  b(‘ 
deemed  guilty  of  a misdemeanor,  and,  on  conviction,  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than 
one  hundred  dollars. 


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CHAPTP:ii  III. 

AUCTIONS  AND  AUCTIONEEKS. 

Sec.  1.  Unlawful  to  exercise  the  business  of  auctioneer. 

2.  To  give  bond  and  pajunent  for  lice,nse. 

o.  Application  for  license,  bow  made. 

4.  Application  for  permit  to  sell  household  goods. 

5.  Guiltj"  of  any  device  or  trick.  — Penalty. 

6.  Exemi^tion. 

Si:cTiON  1.  That  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person 
within  said  eity  to  exereise  the  business,  trade  or  vocation 
of  an  auctioneer,  nor  to  sell  or  vend  at  public  auction  any 
goods,  wares,  merchandise,  or  real  estate,  or  any  interest 
therein,  without  first  having  obtained  from  said  eity  a 
license  or  permit  for  that  purpose,  as  hereinafter  provided, 
and  any  person  violating  this  section  shall  forfeit  and  pay 
not  less  than  twent}'  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred 
dollars  for  every  ofiense. 

§ 2.  Every  person  who  may  wish  to  obtain  a license 
shall  execute  a bond  to  said  city  with  security,  to  be  ap- 
proved by  the  mayor  or  city  council,  in  the  penal  sum  of 
five  hundred  dollars,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  observ- 
ance of  the  ordinances  and  regulations  of  the  city  couneiE 
and  shall  also  pay  to  the  city  treasurer  the  sum  of  one 
hundred  dollars  for  a license  for  the  period  of  one  year,  and 
for  any  period  less  than  one  year  at  the  rate  of  ten  dollars 
per  day. 

§ 3.  Every  person  who  shall  apply  for  a license,  shall 
state  in  writing  toThe  mayor  or  eity  eouneil,  the  proposed 
place  of  business,  and  in  no  ease  except  as  hereinafter, 
otherwivse  provided,  shall  the  license  be  transferred  or  the 
place  of  busbiess  ehang'cd  except  by  the  consent  of  the  eity 


AUCTIOXS  AND  AUCTIONEEKS. 


13t> 

(‘oulicil ; nor  shall  any  persons  have  more  than  one  anetion 
or  sale-room  under  one  license;  nor  shall  they  permit  any 
other  ])erson  or  })ersons  to  sell  under  their  license. 

§ 4.  That  on  the  application  of  any  person  in  writini>- 
fora  permit  to  sell  honsehold  «*oods  at  the  residence  of  such 
applicant  at  auction,  or  upon  the  application  of  any  regular 
(h'aler  as  above,  who  has  been  in  sneh  business  more  than 
one  year  for  a permit  to  close  out  his  stock  of  goods  at  anc- 
tion,  and  n[)on  })ayin(‘iit  by  sneh  applicant  in  advance,  of 
the  Slim  of  two  dollars  i)er  day,  for  each  day  such. sale  shall 
continue,  the  mayor  shall  grant  to  any  auctioneer  having  a 
license  who  shall  be  named  in  such  a[)plication,  a permit  to 
sell  at  auction  at  the  residence  or  place  of  business  of  such 
applicant.  Such  a})plication  slndl  designate  the  place  where 
such  sale  is  to  be  made  and  the  name  of  the  auct  oncer,  and 
shall  be  tiled  ivith  the  city  clerk. 

§ 5.  Any  auctioneer  who  shall  exhibit  and  otter  for  sale 
and  sell  at  auction  any  article,  and  who  shall  afterward 
snbstitnte  any  article  in  lien  of  that  ottered  to  and  pnr- 
(diased  by  the  bidder;  or  whoever  shall  while  engaged  in 
or  al)ont  the  making  of  any  auction  sale,  be  guilty  of 
any  device,  trick  or  fraudulent  practice  with  intent 
thereby  to  deceive  or  defraud  any  bidder,  shall  be  tined  not 
less  than  twenty  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dol- 
lars, and  upon  the  conviction  of  any  auctioneer  of  cither  of 
the  ottenses  named  in  this  section,  his  license  may  b('  re- 
voked by  the  mayor. 

§ 6.  All  sales  at  public  auction  made  by  sheritfs,  masters 
in  chancery,  coroners,  colleeters,  constables,  policemen,  ex- 
ecutors and  administrators,  and  sales  under  mortgage  and 
trust  deeds,  by  virtue  of  their  res[)cctive  offices,  arc  hereby 
exempted  from  the  operations  ot  this  ordinance. 


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CHAPTER  IV. 

BILLIARD,  POOL  AND  BAGATELLE  TABLES,  A.\D 
BOWLING  ALLEYS. 

1 . Unlawful  to  keep  billiards,  etc.,  penalty. 

2.  Application  for  license  and  payment. 

3.  IVn.dty  for  allowing  minors,  etc.,  to  play  billiard.«,  etc. 

4.  When  closed— penalty . 

Section  1.  That  it  shall  not  be  hnvful  for  any  person  to 
keep  within  said  city  any  billiard,  pool,  or  bagatelle  table, 
or  any  bowling  alley,  to  be  used  or  played  upon  by  others 
for  hire  or  gain,  without  first  having  obtained  a license, 
under  a penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars,  nor  more  than 
one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  applicant  to  pay  into  the 
city  treasury  the  sum  of  ten  dollars  for  each  billiard,  pool, 
or  bagatelle  table,  or  bowling  alley,  so  kept  for  use,  and 
thereupon  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  clerk  to  issue  a 
license  to  such  ayiplicant,  under  the  corporate  seal,  signed 
by  the  mayor  and  (‘ountersigned  by  himself;  each  and  every 
license  issued  under  this  ordinance  shall  expire  on  the  first 
day  of  July  in  each  year,  and  no  license  shall  be  granted  for 
a longer  period  than  one  year. 

§ 3.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  having  a 
license  from  said  city  to  keep  billiard,  pool,  or  bagatelle 
tables,  or  bowling  alleys,  to  sufier  or  permit  any  minor 
under  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  to  play  on  any  such 
tables,  or  on  any  bowling  alley,  nor  to  frequent,  remain  at, 
or  be  harbored  in  any  room  wherein  the  same  are  kept  for 
use,  except  such  minor  be  employed  in  the  place  where  such 
billiard  hall  or  bowling  alley  is  so  kept,  and  any  person 


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violating  this  section,  shall  on  conviction,  be  hned  not  less 
than  three  dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for 
each  otfense.  ^ 

§ 4.  All  billiard  and  pool  rooms  and  bowling  alleys 
within  the  city  of  Joliet  shall  be  kept  closed  on  Sundays; 
and  on  week  days  they  shall  be  closed  by  eleven  o’clock  in 
the  evening  of  each  day  and  be  kept  closed  until  five  o’clock 
in  the  morning  of  the  next  day  following.  Any  person  vio- 
hiting  this  section  shall  for  each  oftense  be  fined  not  less 
than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars. 


nHAPTEK  V. 

IIKIDGES. 

SEC.  1.  Must  not  drive  faster  than  a walk;  penalty. 

• 2.  Only  ten  head  of  cattle,  etc.,  to  be  driven  on  at  a time, 

3.  Cersons  shall  not  stop  imneces.sarily  with  teams  on  bridges, 

4.  Crowds  and  obstructions,  on;  penalty. 

Section  1.  That  no  person  shall  ride,  lead,  or  drive  any 
team,  wagon,  dray,  cart,  or  other  vehicle,  or  conveyance 
nor  any  horse,  mare,  ox,  or  other  animal,  over  or  across 
any  iron  or  wooden  bridge  within  the  city  limits,  at  a faster 
gait  or  pace  than  a common  walk,  and  any  person  or  per- 
sons who  shall  be  guilty  of  a violation  of  this  section,  shall, 

for  each  oflensc,  forfeit  and  pay  to  said  city  the  sum  of  five 
dollars. 

§ 2.  Xo  person  or  jicrsons  shall  drive  or  assist  in  driv- 
ing, on  or  across  any  one  of  the  iron  or  wooden  bridges 


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ORDINANCES. 


within  the  city  to  exceed  ten  head  of  cattle  or  horses,  at 
any  one  time,  in  a drove,  and  any  person  violatino*  the 
provisions  of  this  section,  shall,  on  conviction  he  fined  not 
less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hmidi-ed  dollars  for 
each  often se. 

§ d.  If  any  pc'rson  or  persons  shall  imnecessjirily  or 
willfnlly  remain,  or  stop  with  any  team,  or  teams,  horses, 
oxen,  wagon,  sleigh,  sled  or  any  other  vehicle  whatever 
upon  any  of  the  bridges  within  said  city  of  Joliet,  such  per- 
son or  persons  shall,  on  convi(*tion  thereof  be  fined  not  less 
than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  oiu'  hundred  dollars  for 
ea(*h  oftense. 

§ 4.  Xo  })erson  or  persons  shall  gather  in  assemblies  or 
crowds  on  any  of  the  bridges  of  this  city,  or  the  approaches 
leading  to  the  same,  so  as  to  obstruct  in  ain^  manner  the 
passage  of  foot  passengers,  teams,  carriages  or  persons 
across  the  same,  oi-  be  and  remain  upon  any  of  the  side- 
walks or  main  passages  of  any  of  the  bridges  of  this  city, 
nor  upon  the  railings  of  the  said  bridges,  longer  than  Avill 
be  necessary  to  pass  over  the  same,  under  a penalty  of  not 
less  than  three*  dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars 
for  every  such  oftense. 


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143 


niAPTEK  VI. 

BRIDEWELL. 

Si-;c.  1.  PoM'er  of  bridewell  keeper. 

I.  Diity  of,  mmageiiieiit  of  labor. 

Kee])  a record. 

4.  Report,  find  pay  over  moneys  collected . 

5.  BrideAvell  to  be  kept  clean . 

fi.  To  keep  persons  until  expiration  ot  commitment. 

7.  Persons  committed  shall  obey  keeper. 

8.  Duty  of  keeper  and  as.sistants  to  arrest  persons  who  interfere. 

9.  Chief  of  Police  to  make  requisition  for  sii])plies. 

10.  Chief  of  Police  to  superintend  the  bridewell. 

I I.  Mayor  and  committee  on  police  to  visit  bridewell. 

Section'  1.  Thiit  the  keeper  of  the  bridewell  shall  have 
the  custody,  ride,  ehari>’e  and  keeping  of  the  bridewell  and 
all  persons  committed  thereto,  mider  the  supervision  and 
direction  of  the  mayor  and  chief  of  police. 

§ 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  keeper  of  the  bridewell 
to  receive  into  and  confine  in  the  bridewell  all  persons  com- 
mitted thereto  hy  any  police  magistrate,  justice  of  tlie 
[)eaee,  or  criminal  court  authorized  by  law  or  ordinance  to 
commit  to  said  bridewell ; and  to  keep  such  person  or  per- 
sons at  labor  or  otherwise,  according  to  his  or  lier  or  their 
respective  sentences.  The  labor  of  persons  so  committed 
to  the  bridewell,  under  a sentence  to  labor,  shall  be  super- 
intended, directed  and  managed  by  the  chief  of  police,  pro- 
vided, however,  tliat  when  such  labor  is  directed  by  the 
cliief  of  police  to  be  done  on  streets  and  alleys  of  this  city, 
then  such  labor  shall  be  superintended  and  managed  by  the 
suiierintendent  of  streets.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  the 
kee[)er  of  the  bridewell  to  receive  and  confine  in  said  bride- 
well all  persons  who  by  the  ordinances  of  the  (‘itv  are  di- 
rected to  be  confined  theriq’n. 


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§ 3.  The  keeper  of  the  bridewell  shall  keep  a record,  in 
which  he  shall  enter  the  name  of  every  person  committed 
to  said  bridewell,  the  nature  of  the  offense,  by  whom  and 
where  committed,  and  the  date  when,  how  and  by  what 
authority  discharged;  and  he  shall  carefully  preserve  a 
"copy  of  every  order  and  warrant  of  commitment. 

§ 4.  The  said  keeper  shall,  on  or  before  the  first 
Monday  of  every  month,  pay  into  the  city  treasury  all 
money  received  by  him  for  fines,  costs. oi’  otherwise;  and 
he  shall  report  monthly  to  the  city  council  all  moneys  so 
received  by  him;  also  the  names  of  all  persons  confined  in 
the  bridewell,  natui-e  of  offense  and  length  of  time  for  whicli 
they  were  committed,  the  amount  of  the  fines  and  costs, 
and  if  discharged  before  the  expiration  of  the  time  for 
which  they  were  committed,  the  reason  for,  and  by  whom 
discharged. 

§ 5.  The  bridewell  shall  at  all  times  be  kept  clean  and 
in  good  order  and  in  a healthy  condition,  and  the  prisoners 
therein  shal^  be  furnished  with  a supply  of  good  and  whole- 
some food  each  day;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  keep- 
er of  the  bridewell  to  see  that  this  section  is  strictly 
complied  with,  and  he  shall  maintain  towards  persons 
under  his  chargee  a uniformly  humane  and  dignified 
deportment. 

§ ().  He  shall  keep  all  persons  committed  to  his  charge 
for  the  length  of  time  they  are  committed,  or  until  dis- 
charo’ed  bv  due  course  of  law,  or  order  of  the  mayor  or 
city  council. 

§ 7.  Every  person  committed  to  the  bridewell  shall 
obev  the  keeper  in  all  his  lawful  demands,  and  shall  not 
molest  or  hinder  him  or  any  of  his  assistants  in  the  dis- 


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145 


charge  of  their  duty,  and  shall  not  escape  or  attempt  to 
escape  therefrom,  or  destroy  or  injure  any  property  apper- 
taining to  the  bridewell,  and  shall  not  transgress  or  violate 
the  rules  of  discipline  or  any  of  them.  Any  person  violat- 
ing any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  fined  not 
exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  and  imprisoned  not  exceed- 
ing ninety  days,  at  the  discretion  of  the  police  magistrate 
or  justice  of  the  peace. 

§ 8.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  keeper,  and  the  assistant 
keepers  of  the  bridewell,  or  either  of  them,  and  it  is  hereby 
made  their  duty  respectively,  to  arrest  or  cause  to  be 
arrested  and  taken  before  any  police  magistrate  or  justice 
of  the  peace  of  this  city,  any  person  who  shall  molest  or 
in  any  manner  interfere  with  the  keeper  of  the  bridewell 
or  with  either  of  the  assistant  keepers  or  with  any  person 
in  his  or  their  custody  or  charge,  as  a prisoner,  while  in  the 
discharge  of  his  or  their  duty,  either  in  the  bridewell  or 
elsewhere,  and  any  person  who  shall  molest  or  interfere' 
with  the  keeper,  or  assistant  keepers,  ot  the  bridewell,  or 
with  any  person  in  his  or  their  custody  or  charge,  shall  be 
fined  in  a sum  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars. 

§ 9.  The  chief  of  police  shall  make  from  time  to  time» 
a requisition  to  the  city  council  for  the  supplies  needed  at 
the  bridewell,  and  no  supplies  are  to  be  purchased  or 
expenditures  made  for  the  bridewell  without  a requisition 
therefor  having  first  been  allowed  by  the  city  council, 
except  in  cases  of  emergency  arising  through  accident,  and 
in  cases  where  for  the  safe  keeping  of  the  prisoners  therein 
confined,  immediate  repairs  are  necessary;  then  the  chief 
of  police  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the  committee  on 
police,  may  make  such  necessary  pin-chases  and  expendi- 
tures. 


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§ 10.  It  is  hereby  made  a part  of  the  duties  of  the  ehief 
of  police  to  superintend  the  bridcAvell  and  to  take  the  meas- 
ures necessary  to  a compliance  with  this  ordinance. 

§ 11.  The  mayor  and  committee  on  police  shall  visit 
the  bridewell  as  often  as  once  a month,  and  see  that  the 
same  is  kept  in  good  order  and  condition  and  that  the 
rules  and  regulations  thereof  are  strictly  complied  with. 


CHAPTER  YII. 

BUILDINGS. 

Sec.  1.  Buildings,  how  numbered  on  east  side  of  river. 

2.  Buildings,  how  numbered  on  west  side  of  river. 

3.  Buildings,  how  numbered  on  streets  running  north  and  south. 

4.  City  Council  to  cause  plates  of  numbers  to  he  prepared. 

5 . Size  of  number,  etc . 

6.  Neglecting  or  refusing  to  number— penalty. 

Section  1,  It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  owners  or 
occupants  of  all  buildings  situated  in  the  city  of  Joliet,  on 
either  side  of  each  and  every  street,  to  number  them  in  the 
manner  herein,  and  as  may  be  hereafter  provided  by  the 
city  council.  Each  street  that  terminates  at  the  river, 
shall  commence  at  such  point,  fixing  the  even  number  on 
the  south  side  of  each  street,  and  terminating  at  the  east 
end  of  said  street ; also  those  streets  which  run  across  the 
Des  Plaines  Iliver,  shall  commence  at  the  point  of  intersec- 
tion on  the  east  side  of  said  river,  and  terminating  at  the 
east  end  of  said  streets,  and  all  streets  not  running  to  the 
river  and  running  east  and  west,  shall  commence  at  the 
western  termination  and  terminate  at  the  east  end  of  said 
street,  and  all  the  even  numbers  shall  be  on  the  soutji  side 
of  said  street 


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§ 2.  Tlmt  CBch  stioet  ruriiiin<)’  east  and  west  on  the  west 
side  of  the  Des  Plaines  river  in  said  city,  and  terininatino’ 
at  said  river,  shall  eoininenee  mnnhering'  at  the  river,  and 
terminate  at  the  west  end  of  said  streets;  and  also  those 
streets  riinnino-  across  said  river,,  shall  commence  at  the 
point  of  intersection  and  terminate  at  the  west  end  of  said 
streets,  and  all  streets  rimning  east  and  west,  on  the  Avest 
side  of  said  river,  and  not  rnnnino-  to  the  river,  shall  com- 
mence at  the  eastern  terminus  of  said  streets  and  terminate 
at  the  west  end  ot  said  streets. 

§ 3.  That  each  street  rimninof  north  and  south  or  nearly 
north  aiid  south  shall  commence  numbering  at  the  intersec- 
tion of  Jetferson  street  on  the  east  side  of  the  river,  and  at- 
the  intersection  of  Exchange  street  on  the  west  side  of  the 
river.  Streets  not  running  to  Jefferson  or  Exchange 
streets,  and  rnnning  north  and  south;  shall  commence 
nnmliering  at  the  lerniinns  nearest  to  said  Jefferson  and 

Kxchano-e  streets,  the  odd  numbers  to  be  fixed  on  the  Avest 

>■ 

side  of  each  and  every  street  and  the  even  numbers  on  the 
east  side  of  the  street. 

§ 4.  The  city  council  shall  cause  the  city  surveyor 
from  time  to  time  to  prepare  maps  or  plats  of  the  several 
streets,  shoAving  the  numbers  of  all  lots  or  houses,  and  the 
city  surveyor  shall  assign  to  each  lot  or  house  its  proper 
number,  one  hundred  numbers  to  be  assigned  to  each  block, 
the  said  surA'eyor  shall  deliver  free  of  charge  to  the  oAvner 
or  occupant  a certificate  designating  the  number  or  num- 
bers of  his  premises  or  building. 

§ o.  Each  of  the  figures  of  every  number  shall  lie  not 
less  than  tAvo  and  one-half  inches  in  length,  lieing  so 
marked  as  to  be  distinctly  and  easily  read;  said  numbers 
shall  be  placed  in  a conspicuous  place  ou  the  side  of  or 


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iibove  the  front  door  of  the  buildings  to  which  the  same 
are  attached. 

§ 6.  Any  owner  or  occupant  of  any  building  that  is 
now,  or  ina}^  be  hereafter  erected  on  either  side  of  each 
and  every  street  in  the  city  ot  Joliet,  who  after  being 
notified  by  the  mayor,  chief  of  police  or  city  surveyor, 
that  the  street  numbers  are  on  record  at  the  .city  surveyor’s 
office,  shall  for  ten  days  neglect  or  refuse  to  number  any 
buildings  owned  or  occupied  by  him,  in  conformity  with 
the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  o-r  who  shall  number  such 
building  without  having  first  obtained  from  the  city  sur- 
veyor a certificate  des  gnating  the  proper  number  of  such 
building’,  shall  be  subject  to  a penalty  of  three  dollars  and 
a further  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  every  twenty  days 
thereafter  that  he  shall  neg-lect  or  refuse  to  number  said 
building,  or  shall  maintain  thereon  a number  without  said 
certificate  having  first  been  obtained  from  said  surveyor. 


CHAPTER  vm. 

CITY  ATTOENEY. 

Sec.  1.  Duties  of  city  attorney. 

2.  Salury  of. 

3.  City  Council  may  employ  additional  counsel. 

4.  Report  required. 

Section  1.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  attor- 
ney to  appear  for  the  city  in  all  cases  wherein  the  city  is  a 
party  in  all  courts,  to  give  legal  opinions  when  required 
upon  subjects  submitted  to  him  by  the  mayor  or  city  coun- 
cil, or  by  any  department  of  the  municipal  government, 
to  draft  ordinances,  to  aid  in  revising  the  city  ordinances, 
and  to  act  as  the  legal  advisor  of  the  mayor,  the  city  conn  • 
cil,  and  committees  thereof  and  all  other  officers  of  the  city, 


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in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  city.  It  shall  also  be  the 
duty  of  the  city  attorney  to  attend  the  sessions  of  the  city 
council,  and  to  draft  contracts,  deeds,  bonds  and  all  other 
legal  papers,  .when  directed  by  the  city  council  or  com- 
mittees thereof. 

§ 2.  That  the  salary  of  the  city  attorney  to  be  fixed  by 
the  city  council  at  the  sum  of  six  hundred  dollars  per 
annum. 

§ 3.  That  the  city  council  may  at  any  time  employ 
counsel  to  assist  the  city  attorney  in  any  case  or  legal  pro- 
ceedings wherein  the  city  is  a party ; the  compensation  of 
said  additional  counsel  to  be  paid  by  the  city. 

§ 4.  He  shall  annually  on  or  before  May  1st  in  each 
year,  report  in  writing  to  the  city  council  a statement  of 
all  suits  instituted  and  pending  in  courts  of  record  in 
which  the  city  of  Joliet  is  plaintiff  or  defendant,  and  the 
steps  that  may  have  been  taken  in  court  to  bring  such  suits 
to  final  issue,  to  be  accompanied  with  such  explanatory 
remarks  as  said  attorney  may  see  fit  to  append — to  the  end 
that  the  council  may  be  kept  fully  advised  as  to  the  legal 
affairs  of  the  city. 


CHAPTER  IX. 

CORPORATION  COUNSEL. 

Sec  . 1 . Mayor  may  appoint. 

2.  Term  of  office  and  salary. 

3.  Duties  of. 

4.  When  additional  counsel  necessary. 

5.  Compensation,  etc. 

Section  1.  That  the  mayor,  by  and  with  the  advice  and 


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consent  of  tlie  city  conn(‘il,  nniy  appoint  a corporation 
counsel. 

§ 2.  The  term  of  office  of  the  first  appointee  under  this 
ordinance  shall*  commence  on  the  first  day  of  September, 
A.  D.,  18<S3,  and  continue  until  the  first  day  of  July,  A. 
I).,  1884;  the  salary  tlierefor  shall  be  six  hundred  dollars, 
payable  in  ecjnal  monthly  installments,  and  all  subsequent 
appointments  may  be  for  any  time  not  exceedin«f  two  years, 
and  at  a salary  to  l)e  fixed  by  the  city  council. 

§ o.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  corporation  counsel  to 
appear  for  the  city  in  all  cases  in  courts  of  record,  where- 
in the  city  is  a party  or  has  a ])ecuniary  interest,  to  act  as 
the  legal  adviser  of  the  city  council  and  of  all  the  officers 
of  the  city  in  and  about  city  business,  to  attend  the  meet- 
ings of  the  city  council  when  so  requested  to  do,  to  pre- 
pare ordinances,  contracts  and  other  legal  papers  when  so 
directed  by  the  mayor  or  city  coiim'il  or  its  committees  and 
to  act  as  the  counselor  and  legal  representative  of  the 
city. 

§ 4.  Whenever  the  judiciary  committee  of  the  city 
council  shall  deem  it  necessary  for  the  protection  of  the 
interests  of  the  (‘ity  that  the  corporation  counsel  shall  have 
additional  counsel  and  legal  assistance  other  than  that  fur- 
nished by  the  (dty  attorney,  in  any  suit  or  proceeding  to 
which  the  city  is  a party,  or  has  a pecuniary  interest,  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  coiq)oration  counsel  to  employ,  at 
his  own  expense  and  charge,  a competent  attorney  from  the 
regular  practicing  attorneys  of  the  Will  county  bar,  to 
assist  him  in  the  pre[)aration  and  trial  of  such  cause,  such 
selection  to  be  approved  by  the  judiciary  committee  in 
each  case. 


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§ 5.  The  sole  compensation  of  the  corporation  connsel 
for  his  services  and  for  the  hiring'  by  him  of  assistant  conn- 
sel, shall  he  the  sahiiy  mentioned  in  the  second  section  of 
this  chapter,  provided  nothing-  in  this  cha})ter  contained 
shall  make  the  city  liable  for  any  such  additional  assistaiua* 
nor  empoAver  the  corporation  coimseh  to  bind  it  therefor, 
and  it  is  further  provided  that  nothing-  herein  shall  b(‘ 
construed  so  as  to  render  the  corporation  counsel  liable  for 
the  salary  of  the  city  attorney. 


CHAPTER  X. 

• CITY  CLEKK. 

SEC.  1.  City  clerk  to  keep  seal,  records,  etc. 

2.  Duties  of  clerk. 

3.  Clerk  to  give  bonds. 

4.  Clerk  to  report  and  pay  over. 

5.  Balances  to  general  fund. 

Section  1.  The  city  clerk  shall  lie  the  keeper  of  the 
city  seal,  and  shall  affix  to  it  all  instruments  and  papers 
-which  by  hnv  or  ordinance  tire  retiuired  to  be  attested  by 
city  seal;  he  shall  have  the  custody  of,  and  safely  keep  all 
public  records,  documents,  ordinances,  resolutions  tmd 
orders  of  the  city  council,  and  such  other  pajiers  and  docu- 
ments as  may  be  delivered  into  his  custody. 

§ 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  clerk  to  attend  all 
meetings  of  the  city  council,  kec[)  the  minutes  of  all  their 
proceedings,  and  record  the  same  in  books  to  be  provided 
by  the  city  council,  and  to  be  kept  in  his  office.  He  shall 
keep  a correct  account  between  the  city  and  the  city  treas- 
urer, by  charging  him  -ivith  all  sums  received  by  him  as 


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exhibited  to  the  city  clerk  in  his  duplicate  receipts,  and 
credit  him  with  all  money  paid  out  by  him  by  order  of  the 
city  council,  and  he  shall  allow  the  city  treasurer  such 
other  credits  as  he  may  be  entitled  to  by  law  and  the  or- 
dinances of  the  city.  He  shall  countersign  all  warrants 
drawn  on  the  treasurer  and  deliver  the  same  when  called 
for,  taking  a receipt  therefor,  and  generally  he  shall  do  and 
perform  such  other  duties  as  may  from  time  to  time  be  en- 
joined upon  him  by  ordinance  or  resolution  of  the  city 
council.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  clerk  at  the  close 
of  each  fiscal  year,  to  make  out  and  lay  before  the  council 
a full  and  explicit  statement  of  the  receipts  and  expendi- 
tures, and  of  all  the  fiscal  afiairs  of  the  city  during  such 
year  and  cause  the  same  to  be  published  in  the  corporation 
newspaper. 

§ 3.  That  the  city  clerk,  before  entering  on  his  duties, 
shall  hereafter  be  required  to  execute  to  the  city  of  Joliet 
an  official  bond  with  two  or  or  more  sureties,  in  the  pen- 
al sum  of  not  less  than  ten  thousand  dollars,  conditioned 
for  the  faithful  discharge  of  the  duties  of  his  office,  and  the 
prompt  payment  of  all  money  that  may  come  into  his  hands 
by  virtue  of  his  office  and  the  delivery  over  to  his  succes- 
sor, or  to  any  person  appointed  by  the  city  council  to  re- 
ceive the  same,  all  records,  books,  papers,  documents,  and 
all  other  property  in  his  possession,  or  under  his  control 
belonging  to  the  city ; which  bond  shall  be  approved  by 
the  mayor  or  city  council,  and  filed  in*the  office  of  the  city 
treasurer.  The  penalty  of  such  bond  may  be  increased 
from  time  to  time,  by  order  of  the  city  council. 

§ 4 It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  clerk  at  the  end  of 
each  month  to  pay  over  to  the  city  treasurer  all  money 
received  by  him  and  to  report  to  the  city  council  at  its 


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next  regular  meeting  the  amount  of  such  money  received 
by  him  together  with  the  city  treasurer’s  receipt  therefor. 

§ 5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  clerk,  at  the  close 
of  each  fiscal  year,  to  place  to  the  credit  of  the  general  or 
city  fund  all  unexpended  appropriations  for  such  year,  but 
which  shall  not  include  contracts  or  liabilities  entered  into 
by  virtue  of  authority  of  such  appropriation ; and  which  re- 
mains unpaid  at  the  close  ot  said  fiscal  year : Provided^  that 
no  such  disposition  shall  be  made  of  any  trust,  school  or 
special  assessment  funds  that  by  law  are  specific  and  under 
the  direct  control  of  officers  speciall}'  appointed  for  their 
disbursement. 


CHAPTER  XI. 

. CITY  COLLECTOK. 

SEC . 1.  Appointment  and  term  of  oflace. 

2.  City  Collector  to  give  bonds. 

3.  Duties  of  city  collector. 

4.  Rejicrt  of  city  council  moneys  collected. 

5.  Prohibited  from  keeping  money  otcity  in  his  hands 

6.  Collector’s  compensation. 

Section  1.  There  is  hereby"  created  the  office  of  city  col- 
lector, who  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  one  year, 
and  until  his  successor  shall  be  appointed  and  cpialified, 
said  collector  to  be  appointed  by  the  mayor,  by  and  with 
the  advise  and  consent  of  the  city  council,  at  the  first  regu- 
lar meeting  in  INIay  of  each  year,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as 
may  be. 

§ 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  collector  to  collect 
the  special  assessment  and  other  warrants,  which  by  law 
and  the  ordinances  of  said  city  may  be  executed  by  such 
collector.  He  shall  give  a bond  in  the  penal  sum  of  not 
less  than  twenty  thousand  dollars,  conditioned  for  the 


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faithful  performance  of  the  duties  of  said  office,  such  bond 
to  be  approved  by  the  city  council. 

§ 3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  collector  to  preserve  all 
warrants  which  are  returned  into  his  hands,  and  he  shall 
keep  such  books,  and  his  accounts,  in  a correct  and  legible 
manner.  Such  books,  warrants,  and  all  papers  pertaining 
to  said  office,  shall,  at  all  times  be  open  to  the  inspection 
of,  and  subject  to  the  examination  of  the  mayor,  city  clerk, 
or  any  member  of  the  council,  or  committee  thereof.  He 
shall,  weekly,  and  ofteiier  if  required  by  the  council,  pay 
over  to  the  treasurer  all  moneys  collected,  taking  such 
treasurer’s  receipt  therefor,  which  receipt  he  shall  imme- 
diately file  with  the  city  clerk,  but  the  city  clerk  shall,  at 
the  same  time,  or  on  demand,  give  such  tax  collector  a copy 
of  any  such  receipt  so  filed. 

That  in  all  cases  where  a warrant  for  the  collection  of  a 
special  assessment  is  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  city  collec- 
tor for  collection,  he  shall,  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of 
March  in  each  year,  or  such  other  date  as  may  be  fixed  for 
such  purpose  by  the  general  revenue  law  of  this  state; 
Provided^  such  warrant  shall  have  been  in  his  hands  for  col- 
lection more  than  sixty  days  prior  to  such  date,  report,  in 
writing,  to  the  county  collector  or  such  other  officer  of  the 
county  as  may  be  authorized  or  designated  in  the  revenue 
laws  of  this  state,  to  apply  for  judgment  and  sell  lands  for 
taxes,  due  the  county  and  state,  of  all  the  lands,  town  lots, 
and  real  property,  on  which  he  shall  have  been  unable  to 
collect  such  special  assessment  or  assessments,  with  the 
amount  due  and  unpaid  thereon,  together  with  his  warrant 
or  warrants,  or  a brief  description  of  the  nature  of  such 
warrant  or  warrants,  received  by  him,  authorizing  the  col- 
. lection  thereof.  Such  report  shall  be  accompanied  by  the 


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155 


oath  of  such  collector,  that  the  list  is  a correct  return  of 
the  lauds,  toYvii  lots,  and  real  property,  on  which  a special 
assessment  or  assessments,  levied  by  authority  of  the  city 
of  Joliet,  remain  due  and  unpaid,  that  he  has  been  unable 
to  collect  the  same,  or  any  part  thereof,  and  that  he  has 
given  the  notice  required  by  hiYv,  and  that  said  warrant  or 
warrants  have  been  received  by  him  for  collection. 

§ 4.  He  shall  make  a report,  in  writing,  to  the  council 
or  any  officer  designated  by  the  council,  of  all  moneys  col- 
lected by  him,  the  account  Yvhereon  collected,  or  of  any 
other  matters  in  connection  with  his  office  when  required 
by  the  council.  He  shall  also,  annually,  between  the  first 
and  the  tenth  day  of  April,  file  Yvith  the  city  clerk  a state- 
ment of  all  moneys  collected  by  him  during  the  year,  the 
particular  Yvarrant,  and  special  assessment,  or  account  on 
which  collected,  the  balance  of  moneys  uncollected  on  all 
warrants  in  his  hands,  and  the  balance  remaining  uncol- 
lected at  the  time  of  the  retui  n,  on  all  Avarrants  Avhich  he 
shall  ha\"e  returned  during  the  preceding  fiscal  year,  to  the 
city  clerk.  The  city  clerk  shall  publish  or  post  the  same 
as  herein  before  required  to  be  done  in  regard  to  the  an- 
nual report  of  the  treasurer. 

§ 5.  The  collector  is  hereby  expressly  prohibited  from 
keeping  the  moneys  of  the  city  in  his  hands,  or  in  the  hands 
of  any  person,  or  corporation,  to  his  use,  beyond  the  time 
which  may  be  prescribed  for  the  payment  of  the  same  to 
the  treasurer,  and  any  violation  of  this  ordinance  will  sub- 
ject him  to  immediate  removal  from  office. 

§ 6.  The  said  collector  shall  receiA'e  two  per  cent,  in 
full  compensation  for  all  moneys  actually  collected  and  paid 
over  by  him  to  the  city  treasurer. 


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CHAPTER  XII. 

CITY  TREASURER. 

Sec.  1.  To  give  bond, 

2.  Duties  of  city  treasm*er. 

3.  City  treasurer  to  report,  when,  etc. 

4.  Fees  of  city  treasurer. 

Section  1.  The  city  treasurer,  before  entering  upon  the 
duties  of  his  office,  shall  execute  a bond,  with  sureties,  to 
be  approved  by  the  city  council,  in  a sum  not  less  than  the 
amount  of  the  estimated  tax  and  special  assessments  for  the 
current  year. 

§ 2.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  treasurer  from 
time  to  time,  to  take  under  his  charge  and  keep  a true  and 
correct  account  of  all  money  belonging  to  the  city  of  Joliet, 
stating  from  whom  and  on  what  account  received,  and  he 
shall  give  two  receipts  therefor,  to  the  person  from  whom 
he  may  receive  the  same,  one  of  which  receipts  the  person 
to  whom  the  treasurer  may  give  them  shall  deliver  to  the 
city  clerk  an  order  that  the  treasurer  may  be  charged  by 
the  city  clerk  with  the  amount  thereof,  and  in  no  case  shall 
any  officer  of  the  city,  or  any  other  person,  be  released  from 
his  responsibility  to  the  city  for  any  money  he  may  at  any 
time  have  in  his  possession  belonging  to  the  city,  until  he 
shall  deliver  to  the  city  clerk  the  treasurer's  receipt  there- 
for. 

§ 3.  The  city  treasurer  shall,  on  the  first  of  each  month, 
or  oftener  if  required,  make  a report  under  oath  to  the  city 
council  of  the  amount  of  money  received  by  him,  paid  out, 
and  on  hand,  and  shall  at  the  close  of  each  fiscal  year,  make 
out  and  deliver  to  the  city  clerk  a full  and  complete  report 


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of  his  doings  during  the  preceding  year,  stating  the 
amount  of  money  received,  and  from  whom  and  for  what 
j)iirpose  received,  and  exhibit  all  credits  allowed  by  law 
and  the  ordinances  of  the  city,  and  he  shall  do  and  perform 
such  other  duties  as  may  be  required  of  him,  by  ordinance, 
resolution,  or  order  of  the  city  council. 

§ 4.  That  the  city  treasurer  shall  receive  as  his  sole 
compensation  one  third  of  one  per  cent,  of  all  moneys  re- 
ceived by  him  (except  those  received  from  his  predecessor 
in  office)  and  one-third  of  one  per  cent,  of  all  moneys  paid 
out  by  him,  (except  of  those  paid  over  to  his  successor  in 
office)  and  he  shall  receive  no  percentage  of  the  money  re- 
ceived from  his  predecessor,  or  paid  to  his  successor ; the 
amount  due  said  treasurer  for  commissions  to  be  stated  in 
each  monthly  report,  and  upon  approval  of  such  report 
by  the  city  council  an  order  shall  be  drawn  in  his  favor  for 
the  amount  of  his  commissions  as  shown  to  be  due  him,  and 
the  city  treasurer  shall  receive  no  other  fees,  perquisites, 
or  expenses  of  any  description,  but  shall  furnish  and  con- 
duct his  office  at  his  own  expense. 


CHAPTER  XIII, 

CORPORATE  SEAL, 

Sec.  h Seal  established;  in  what  cases  to  be  used. 

2.  Shall  remain  in  custody  of  clerk ; how  to  be  used. 

Section  1.  That  a seal  in  a circular  form,  with  the 
words  “City  of  Joliet,”  June  19,  1852,  on  the  outer  circle, 
and  in  the  interior  and  centre  of  said  circle,  the  impression 
representing  a stone  arch  bridge^  shall  be  the  seal  of  the  city 
of  Joliet,  to  be  used  in  all  cases  that  have  been  or  shall 


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hereafter  be  provided  by  the  laws  of  the  United  States,  the 
laws  of  the  several  respective  states  of  the  United  States, 
and  the  ordinances  of  the  said  city  of  Joliet,  and  in  all  the 
cases  in  which,  by  the  laws  and  customs  ot  nations  it  is 

necessary  to  use  a seal  by  a corporation. 

« 

§ 2.  The»said  city  seal  shall  be  and  remain  in  the  cus- 
tody of  the  clerk  of  said  city,  to  be  used  by  the  said  clerk 
and  the  mayor  of  said  city,  as  is  provided  in  the  first  sec- 
tion of  this  ordinance. 


CHAPTER  XIV. 

CITY  SUEVEYOR. 

Sec.  1.  Office  created— bond. 

2.  Duties  of  city  surveyor. 

3.  City  surveyor  to  give  gmde,  when,  etc. 

4.  To  keep  record,  etc. 

5.  Fees. 

6.  To  survey  new  streets,  etc. 

Section  1.  There  is  hereby  created  the  office  of  city 
surveyor  who  shall  hold  his  office  for  one  year,  and  until 
his  successor  shall  he  appointed  and  qualified,  said  surveyor 
to  be  appointed  by  the  mayor,  by  and  with  the  advise  and 
consent  ol  the  city  council  at  the  first  regular  meeting  in 
May  of  each  year,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  may  be,  who 
shall  before  entering’  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  execute 
to  said  city  a bond  in  the  penal  sum  of  two  thousand  dol- 
lars with  two  or  more  ^ood  and  sufficient  securities  to  be 
approved  by  the  city  council,  conditioned  that  he  will 
faithfully  perform  his  duties  as  such  surveyor,  and  that  he 
will  at  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office,  turn  over  to  his 
successor,  or  to  the  city  of  Joliet,  all  books,  records,  sur- 
veys, plats,  papers,  notes,  and  writings  coming  to  his  hands 


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as  such  surveyor,  or  made  by  him  as  such  surveyor  while 
employed  by  the  city. 

§ 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  surveyor,  from  time 
to  time,  to  examine  all  public  improvements  in  course  of 
construction;  he  shall  also  make  the  necessary  surveys, 
plats,  drawings,  and  estimates  of  all  public  improvements 
and  buildings  ordered  by  the  cit}^  council,  and  make  all 
necessary  surveys  of  streets,  alleys,  public  square,  and  till 
other  surveys  required  in  the  city;  and  also,  when  required 
by  the  city  council,  to  mark  the  line  of  any  lot,  or  any  pub- 
lic or  private  property,  or  the  grade  of  any  street,  alley,  or 
avenue,  and  mark  the  same  in  some  substantial  and  per- 
manent manner;  make  correct  levelings  of  the  streets, 
alleys,  or  avenues,  the  grades  whereof  is  not  yet  estab- 
lished, and  report  plans  and  estimates  for  the  grading  there- 
of; and  leveling,  plans  and  estimates  of  any  street,  alley  or 
avenue,  the  grading  whereof  shall  be  changed  or  altered; 
making  land-marks,  either  tor  surveying  or  leveling,  by 
planting  stgnes  or  otherwise,  as  he  shall  deem  necessary  or 
useful;  mark  out  all  streets,  alleys,  or  avenues,  authorized 
b5^  ordinance,  to  be  opened,  and  when  directed  by  the  city 
council,  construct  and  keep  in  his  office,  a connected  map 
of  the  city,  showincr  thereon  the  several  additions  thereto, 
the  streets,  alleys,  avenues,  public  squares,  public  build- 
ings, and  city  property,  bridges,  and  generally,  all  such 
conspicuous  and  permanent  topographical  objects  as  he 
shall  deem  necessiiy,  and  from  time  to  time  correct  and  al- 
ter the  same  as  circumstances  may  require.  Whenever  re- 
(|uired  by  the  city  council,  he  shall  report  his  proceedings 
to  said  council. 

§ 3.  The  city  surveyor,  when  required  to  survey,  sub- 
divide, or  give  the  grade  of  any  lot  or  piece  of  ground 


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within  the  city,  shall  survey  the  same,  and  mark  the  metes 
and  bounds  and  grade  thereof,  and  give  the  person  apply- 
ing therefor  a certificate,  specifying  the  metes  and  bounds 
and  grade  (when  established)  and  shall  be  entitled  to  re- 
ceive as  compensation  for  the  same,  the  following  fees,  to 
be  paid  by  the  party  applying  therefor ; for  surveying  any 
lot,  or  surveying  and  sub-dividing  any  lot,  not  more  than 
once,  or  giving  the  grade  of  the  street  in  front  thereof, 
the  sum  of  two  dollars;  Provided,  that  when  said  grading 
is  done  in  pursuance  of  an  ordinance  ot  the  city  council, 
no  surveyor's  fee  shall  be  charged,  and  if  sub-divided  more 
than  once,  and  not  more  than  four  times,  three  dollars;  if 
sub-divided  more  than  four  times,  and  not  more  than  seven, 
five  dollars,  and  for  all  sub-divisions  over  seven  in  number, 
he  shall  receive  at  the  rate  ot  one  dollar  for  each  sub-divi- 
sion. If  he  shall  give  a false  or  incorrect  certificate  of  any 
survey  or  of  any  grade,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  said  city, 
not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred 
dollars. 

§ 4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  surveyor  to  keep  a 
systematic  record  on  the  books  of  the  city  of  all  transac- 
tions within  his  department,  and  carefully  perserve  in  his 
office  all  maps,  plans,  and  surveys  of  the  city,  and  all  re- 
cords, books,  papers  and  writings  made  by  him,  or  coming 
to  or  being  in  his  hands  as  such  city  surveyor.  To  keep  in  a 
suitable  book  to  be  provided  by  the  city,  all  gi'ades  estab- 
lished by  the  city  council,  said  grade  book  shall  be  the  ex- 
clusive property  of  the  city,  and  all  entries  therein  shall  be 
made  with  ink.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  the  city  sur- 
veyor to  give  grades  of  streets  or  alleys  to  persons  desir- 
ing to  build  or  to  construct  sidewalks,  and  street  lines  to 
persons  desiring  to  construct  curbing  or  street  grading. 


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when  instructed  so  to  do  by  the  city  council  or  its  commit- 
tee on  public  improvements.  To  do  and  perform  such 
other  duties  pertaining  to  the  business  of  his  department 
as  may  from  time  to  time  be  necessary,  or  as  the  city  coun- 
cil or  any  authorized  committee  thereof  may  require  of 
him. 

§ 5.  Every  person  intending  to  build  upon  any  lot,  may 
apply  to  the  city  surveyor  for  the  grade  in  front  thereof, 
and  the  city  surveyor  shall  ascertain  and  mark  the  same, 
and  give  a certificate  thereof,  for  which  he  shall  receive  a 
compensation  of  two  dollars,  to  be  paid  by  the  party  ap- 
plying therefor. 

§ 6.  Whenever  any  new  street,  alley,  or  avenue  is  es- 
tablished, or  any  alteration  made  in  existing  streets,  alleys, 
or  avenues,  the  city  surveyor  shall  survey  the  same,  run- 
ning the  center  line  thereof,  and  noting:  the  width  of  the 
street  on  each  side  of  the  line  and  the  intersection  of  cer- 
tain streets  therewith.  The  city  surveyor  shall  receive  for 
his  service  such  compensation  as  the  city  council  may  de- 
termine. 


CHAPTER  XV. 

CITY  COUNCIL. 


SEC . 1 . Regular  meeting  ot  city  council . 

2.  How  special  meetings  called. 

3.  No  business  transacted  except  specified. 

4.  Rules  of. 

Section  1.  That  the  city  council  of  the  city  of  Joliet 
shall  hold  its  regular  meetings  for  the  transaction  of  gener- 
al business  on  the  second  Monday  of  each  month,  at  the 
hour  of  two  o’clock  P.  M. 

§ 2,  The  mayor,  or  any  three  aldermen,  may  call  special 


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meetings  of  the  city  council.  Such  call  shall  be  in  writing 
and  signed  by  the  mayor  or  said  three  aldermen  calling 
said  meeting  and  shall  specify  the  subject  to  be'  discussed 
at  such  special  meeting.  A notice  of  such  special  meeting 
specifying  the  subjects  to  be  considered,  shall  be  served  by 
the  chief  of  police  on  each  alderman,  either  personally  or 
by  leaving  the  same  at  his  residence. 

§ 3.  At  such  special  meeting  no  subject  shall  be  acted 
upon  except  those  specified  in  the  call.  The  place  of  meet- 
ing of  said  city  council  shall  be  the  city  hall. 

§ 4.  The  following  shall  be  the  rules  for  the  govern- 
ment of  the  deliberation  of  the  city  council  : 

Rule  I.  The  rules  of  procedure  and  order  of  business 
shall  be  adhered  to  invariably  by  the  city  council,  unless 
the  same  shall  be  suspended  by  consent  of  two-thirds  of 
the  members  present. 

Rule  II.  At  the  hour  appointed  for  the  meeting? 
the  clerk  (or  some  one  appointed  to  supply  his  absence) 
shall  proceed  to  call  the  roll  of  members,  marking 
the  absentees,  and  announce  whether  a quorum  be 
present — upon  the  appearance  of  a quorum,  the  council 
shall  be  called  to  order,  the  mayor  taking  the  chair, 
if  present,  and  the  council  appointing  a temporary 
chairman,  if  he  should  be  absent.  The  council  shall  then 
proceed  to  business  before  them,  which  shall  be  conducted 
in  the  order  following: 

1.  Reading  minutes  of  previous  meeting  and  special 
meetings. 

2.  Petitions  and  communications. 

3.  Reports  of  officers. 

4.  Reports  of  standing  committees. 

5. '  Reports  of  special  committees. 


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0.  Unfinished  business. 

7.  Miscellaneous  business. 

Eule  III.  All  questions  relating  to  the  priority  of  busi- 
ness shall  be  decided  without  debate. 

Eule  IV.  The  mayor  shall  preserve  order  and  decorum, 
and  shall  decide  all  questions  of  order,  subject  to  an  appeal 
to  the  council. 

Eule  V.  AVhile  the  mayor  is  putting  the  questions,  no 
member  shall  walk  across  or  out  of  the  council  room. 

Eule  VI.  Every  member,  previous  to  speaking,  shall 
rise  from  his  seat  and  address  himself  to  the  mayor,  but 
shall  not  proceed  with  his  remarks  until  recognized  and 
named  by  the  mayor. 

Eule  VII.  Every  member  who  shall  be  present  when  a 
question  is  stated  from  the  chair,  shall  vote  thereon  unless 
excused  by  the  city  council,  or  unless  he  be  directly  in- 
terested in  the  question,  in  which  case  he  shall  not  vote.  ' 

Eule  VIII.  No  motion  shall  be  debated  or  put  unless  it 
be  seconded.  AVhen  the  motion  is  seconded,  it  shall  be 
stated  by  the  mayor  before  debate,  and  every  such  motion 
shall  be  reduced  to  writing  if  required  by  a member. 

Eule  IX.  After  a motion  or  resolution  is  stated  by  the 
mayor,  it  shall  be  deemed  to  be  in  possession  of  the  council, 
but  may  be  withdrawn  by  unanimous  consent  at  any  time 
before  a decision  or  amendment. 

Eule  X.  If  the  question  in  debate  contain  several  dis- 
tinct propositions,  any  member  may  have  the  same  divided. 

Eule  XI.  AVhen  a blank  is  to  be  filled,  and  different 
sums  or  times  proposed,  the  question  shall  first  be  put  upon 
the  largest  sum  and  longest  time. 


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Rule  XII.  A motion  to  adjourn  the  council,  shall  always 
he  in  order,  and  shall  be  put  without  debate. 

Rule  XIII.  In  all  cases  when  a resolution  or  motion  be 
entered  on  the  minutes  of  the  city  council,  the  name  of  the 
member  moving  the  same,  shall  also  be  entered  on  the  min- 
utes. 

Rule  XIV.  If  one  member  require  it,  the  ayes  and  hoes 
upon  a question  shall  be  taken  and  entered  upon  the  min- 
utes, but  the  ayes  and  noes  shall  not  be  taken  unless  called 
for  previously  to  any  vote  upon  the  question,  except  on  or- 
dinances and  appropriations. 

Rule  XV.  All  committees  shall  be  appointed  b}^  the 
mayor,  unless  otherwise  specially  directed,  by  the  council 
in  case  they  shall  be  appointed  by  ballot. 

Rule  XVr.  Standing  and  select  committees  to  whom  re- 
ferences are  made,  shall  in  all  cases  report  in  writing,  the 
state  of  facts  with  their  opinion  thereon  and  attach  to  their 
reports  all  resolutions,  petitions,  remonstrances  and  other 
papers  in  their  possession  relative  to  the  matters  referred. 

Rule  XVII.  All  reports  of  committees  shall  be  addressed 
to  the  mayor  and  aldermen  of  the  city  council  of  the  city  ot 
Joliet. 

Rule  XVIII.  When  a member  wishes  to  present  a com- 
munication, petition,  or  report,  he  shall  rise  in  his  place 
and  address  the  chairman  in  the  usual  form,  having  briefly 
stated  the  subject  of  such  communication  or  report,  asking 
leave  to  present  the  same. 

Rule  XIX.  The  standing  committees  of  the  city  council 
shall  consist  of  three  members  each,  except  committees  on 
streets  and  alleys,  which  shall  consist  of  one  alderman  from 
each  ward,  from  the  east  and  west  side  of  the  river. 


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Rule  XX.  The  city  clerk  shall  forward  all  the  papers  to 
the  appropriate  committees  and  officers,  as  early  as  the  next 
da}'  after  the  reference  shall  have  been  made,  and  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  chief  ot  police  to  deliver  them : Pro- 

vded^  the  chief  of  police  may  employ  a special  messenger 
to  distribute  the  same  whenever  the  duties  of  his  office  may 
require  it. 

Rule  XXI.  Regular  meetings  of  the  city  council  shall 
be  held  on  the  second  Monday  in  each  month,  at  2 o’clock 
P.  M.  Xotices  of  special  meetings  shall  be  served  by  the 
chief  of  police  on  each  alderman  personally,  or  by  leaving 
the  same  at  his  usual  place  of  residence.  The  chief  of 
police  shall  have  charge  of  the  council  rooms,  and  shall 
give  his  attendance  at  the  meeting  of  the  council. 

Rule.  XXII.  The  standing  committees  of  the  city  coun- 
cil shall  be  appointed  by  the  mayor  annually,  on  entering 
upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  and  the  first  person  named  on 
the  committee  shall  be  chairman  thereof.  The  following 
shall  be  the  standing  committees: 

1.  On  Finance. 

2.  On  Claims. 

3.  On  Judiciary. 

4.  On  Schools. 

5.  On  Streets  and  Alleys,  east  side  of  the  river. 

6.  On  Streets  and  Alleys,  west  side  of  the  river. 

7.  On  Bridges,  Culverts  and  Sewers. 

8.  On  Fire  and  Water. 

9.  On  Printing. 

10.  On  Public  Grounds  and  Buildings. 

11.  On  Ordinances. 

12.  On  Police. 

13.  On  Gas. 


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14.  On  Licenses. 

15.  On  Public  Improvements. 

Rule  XXIII.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  standing  com- 
mittees of  the  council  to  keep  a close  watch  of  the  affairs 
of  their  respective  departments  of  the  city  government, 
and  to  make  report  to  the  council  of  whatever  facts  may  be 
deemed  of  importance.  Each  committee  shall  promptly 
and  thoroughly  investigate  and  report  in  writing  upon  all 
matters  referred  to  it  by  the  council,  and  perform 
such  other  duties  as  the  council  may  from  time  to  time  pre- 
scribe. 

Rule  XXIV.  When  the  council  votes  to  adjourn,  the 
members  shall  remain  seated  until  the  presiding  officer 
announces  such  vote. 

Rule  XXV.  No  persons  shall  occupy  positions  within 
the  council  bar  except  the  mayor,  aldermen,  city  clerk, 
city  attorney  and  corporation  counsel,  without  permission 
of  the  council. 

Rule  XXVI.  No  member  shall  be  allowed  to  speak 
more  than  three  times  upon  a question,  nor  longer  than 
five  minutes,  (except  the  mover  of  the  question,)  who  shall 
be  entitled  to  the  same  length  of  time  for  closing. 

Rule  XXVII.  Petitions  and  remonstrances  shall  be  filed 
with  the  city  clerk  by  twelve  o’clock  on  the  day  of  the 
meeting  of  the  council. 

Rule  XXVIII.  “Cushing’s  Manual”  shall  govern  the 
proceedings  of  the  council,  except  where  in  conflict  with 
the  foregoing  rules. 

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CHAPTER  XVI. 

CITY  WAKRANTS. 

Sec.  1.  Warrants,  how  drawn. 

2.  Clerk  not  to  draw  warmnts  till  four  days. 

3.  When  clerk  to  cancel  warrants  and  issue  new. 

4.  Tax  levy  Avarrants. 

5.  How  paid. 

6.  When  a\ii  horized  to  bori'OAV  mone3’^  on  tax  warrants. 

Section  1.  “That  all  Avarrants  drawn  upon  the  treas- 
“iirer  must  be  signed  by  the  mayor  and  countersigned  by 
“the  clerk,  stating  the  particular  fund  or  appropriation  to 
“AAdhch  the  same  is  chargeable,  and  the  person  to  Avhom 
“payable;  and  no  money  shall  be  otherAAUse  paid  than  upon 
“such  AAmrrants  so  draAvn.”  All  warrants  draAvn  upon  the 
treasurer  shall  be  payable  on  demand,  except  Avhen  other- 
wise specially  ordered  by  the  city  council. 

§ 2.  The  clerk  shall  not  draAv  any  warrant  or  Avarrants 
on  the  treasury,  in  faAmr  of  any  person  or  persons,  for  the 
payment  of  any  claim,  bill,  or  account,  against  the  city, 
and  alloAved  by  the  council,  until  the  expiration  of  four 
days  after  the  adjournment  of  the  meeting  at  Avhich  said 
claim,  bill,  or  account  Avas  alloAved. 

§ 3.  That  AAdienever,  by  order  of  the  city  council,  any 
special  improvement  shall  have  been  finally  abandoned, 
and  the  proceedings  in  relation  thereto  dismissed  from 
court  before  the  collection  of  an  assessment  for  such 
special  improvement,  the  mayor  and  city  clerk  are  hereby 
authorized,  to  cancel  all  warrants  drawn  on  such  special 
improvement  fund  av hen  surrendered  to  them,  and  to  issue 
to  the  holders  thereof,  Avarrants,  on  the  general  fund  of 
like  amount. 


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§ 4.  That  the  mayor  and  city  clerk  are  hereby  author- 
ized to  procure  a book  of  blank  warrants  to  be  drawn 
against  and  in  anticipation  of  the  collection  of  taxes  after 
the  same  have  been  levied,  in  accordance  with  the  provis- 
ions of  Section  Two,  of  an  act  of  the  general  assembly, 
of  the  state  ol  Illinois,  entitled,  “An  act  to  provide  for 
the  manner  of  issuing  warrants  upon  the  treasury  of  any 
county,  township,  city,  school  district  or  other  munici- 
pal corporation,  and  jurors’  certificates,”  approved  May, 
31st  1879,  and  in  force  July  1st,  1879.  Such  warrants 
shall  be  known  as  “tax  levy  warrants,”  and  shall  be  num- 
bered as  a separate  series  from  the  demand  warrants  des- 
cribed in  Section  One  hereof,  and  shall  state  upon  their 
face  against  the  tax  levy  of  what  year  they  are  drawn ; in 
other  respects  their  form  shall  conform  with  the  require- 
ments of  Section  One  hereof;  and  the  clerk  shall  keep  a 
separate  account  ot  all  the  warrants  so  issued. 

§ 5.  Where  any  such  tax-levy  warrants  have  been 
ordered  by  the  city  council  and  drawn  by  the  mayor  and 
city  clerk,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clerk  to  file  with  the 
city  treasurer  a certificate  of  the  numbers  and  amounts  of 
such  tax  levy  warrants,  and  of  the  funds  upon  which,  and 
persons  in  whose  favor  they  are  drawn,  and  the  rate  of 
interest,  if  any.  As  last  as  the  taxes,  against  which  the 
warrants  are  drawn,  are  collected  and  paid  to  the  city 
treasurer,  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  set  apart  out  of  said  taxes 
and  out  of  the  respective  funds  upon  which  such  tax  levy 
warrants  were  drawn  a sum  sufficient  to  pay  said  tax  levy 
warrants  and  to  hold  such  sum  for  such  payment. 

§ 6.  Whenever,  after  the  passage  and  approval  of  the 
appropriation  bill  and  tax  ordinance  of  any  fiscal  year, 
and  before  the  taxes  so  levied  have  been  collected,  the 


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city  council  shall  direct  the  issue  of  ordinary  demand 
-warrants  against  any  fund,  and  if  there  is  not  in  such  fund 
in  the  treasury  any  or  sufficient  monies  to  pay  such  war- 
rants, the  mayor  and  city  clerk  are  authorized  to  borrow 
and  pay  into  the  city  treasury  to  the  credit  of  such  fund  a 
sum  sufficient  to  supply  such  deficiency,  and  the  mayor 
and  city  clerk  are  authorized  to  issue  to  the  person  lending 
such  money,  a tax  levy  warrant,  as  provided  in  Section 
Four  of  this  chapter,  against  the  fund  so  deficient,  for  the 
amount  of  such  loan,  and  may  provide  in  such  tax  levy 
warrant  for  the  payment  of  interest  thereon  at  a rate  not 
exceeding  eight  per  cent,  per  annum. 


CHAPTER  XVII. 

DOGS. 


Sec.  1. 
2. 

3. 

4. 
5 
6. 

7. 

8. 

9, 

10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 


Dogs  not  allowed  to  run  at  large. 

Mayor,  duty  of,  to  give  notice. 

When  dogs  declared  a nuisance. 

Penalty  for  preventing  officers. 

Dogs  to  be  licensed— fee. 

Clerk  to  provide  necessary  tags. 

Licensed  dogs  to  wear  collar  with  tags  fastened  thereto 
When  deemed  a nuisance,  how  abated. 

Pound  keeper— fees. 

Penalty. 

In  lieu  of  other  city  tax. 

License,  not  to  permit  dogs  to  go  unmuzzled. 

When  complaint  made  to  mayor  of  dog  biting,  howling,  etc. 


Section  1.  That  it  shall  not  be  lawTiil  for  any  animal  of 
the  dog  kind  to  run  at  large  in  the  city  of  Joliet,  from  the 
first  day  of  June  until  the  first  day  of  October  of  each  year, 
and  at  such  other  times  as  are  hereinafter  provided,  unless 
the  same  be  securely  muzzled. 


§ 2.  The  mayor  shall,  at  any  time,  on  an  alarm  of  mad 
dogs,  prohibit  by  notice  in  some  public  newspaper  or  print- 


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ed  handbills,  all  dogs  from  running  at  large  within  the  city 
limits,  and  such  prohibition  shall  continue  so  long  as  pub- 
lic safety  may  require,  and  until  public  notice,  by  the  mayor, 
of  the  discontinuance  thereof. 

§ 3.  Any  dog  running  at  large  in  violation  of  Section  1 
and  2 of  this  Chapter,  is  hereby  declared  a public  nuisance, 
and  it  shall  be  the  ciuty  of  the  chief  of  police,  pound  keeper, 
;iny  police  officer,  or  any  other  jierson  appointed  by  the 
mayor  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  to  cause  such  dog  so  found  to 
be  taken  up  and  disposed  of  as  provided  in  Section  8 of  this 
Chapter. 

§ 4.  That  no  person  shall  in  any  way  prevent,  or  at- 
tempt to  prevent,  the  chief  of  police,  pound  keeper,  or  aay 
police  officer  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  from  performing  any 
duty  required  by  this  Chapter,  and  every  person  so  offend- 
ing shall  on  conviction  forfeit  and  pay  for  the  use  of  said 
city,  the  sum  ot  not  less  than  three  dollars  nor  more  than 
twenty-live  dollars,  for  each  offense. 

§ 5.  Every  owner,  })ossessor,  or  person  who  keeps  any 
dog  within  the  limits  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  shall  annually 
and  within  thirty  days  after  the  first  day  of  July  in  each 
year,  pay  to  the  city  clerk  the  sum  of  two  dollars  for  each 
dog  so  owned,  possessed  or  harbored  by  him  or  her,  and 
cause  such  dog  to  be  registered  in  the  office  of  the  city 
clerk,  in  a book  kept  for  that  purpose,  and  also  obtain  from 
such  clerk  the  metal  tag  hereinafter  required  to  be  pro- 
vided by  the  said  clerk. 

§ 6.  The  city  clerk  shall  provide  each  and  every  year, 
such  number  of  metal  tags  as  may  be  necessary,  of  such 
size  and  shape  as  he  shall  deem  expedient,  (the  shape  to  be 
changed  each  year)  having  stamped  thereon  numbers  indi- 
cating the  year  for  which  the  license  fee  is  paid,  and  the 


DOGS. 


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letters  C.  D.  L.,  and  to  deliver  one  of  such  inetalic  tags  to 
the  person  so  paying  the  license  fee  npon  anv  such  dog. 

§ 7.  Every  dog  so  licensed  shall  have  a collar  around  his 
neck  with  the  metal  ta«*  aforesaid  secnrclv  fastened  thereto. 

O ^ 

Any  dog  found  within  said  city,  without  such  metal  tag 
upon  his  neck,  shall  be  deemed  a nuisance  and  shall  be 
abated  as  follows: 

§ 8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  of  police,  his  as- 
sistants and  all  policemen  and  pound  masters  in  the  city, 
to  take  up  and  impound  in  the  city  pound  or  such  place  as' 
may  by  ordinance  bo  directed,  any  dog  found  in  the  city  of 
Joliet  not  having  a collar  around  his  neck  and  the  metal 
ta«:  aforesaid  attached  thereto,  and  if  such  dog  shall  not  be 
redeemed  within  four  days  after  such  dog  shall  have  been 
impounded,  it  shall  be  the  the  duty  of  the  pound  keeper  of 
said  pound  wherein  such  dog  shall  be  impounded  to  slay  or 
cause  the  same  to  be  slain. 

§ 9.  Every  pound  keeper  or  other  person  designated  by 
the  mayor  to  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  is  here- 
by authorized  to  collect  a fee  of  three  dollars  of  the  owner 
of  every  dog  so  impound,  d,  and  twenty  cents  per  day  for 
every  day  such  dog  shall  be  impounded;  and  he  shall  keep 
a register  of  such  dogs  and  shall  account  for  and  pay  into 
the  city  treasury  all  moneys  received  under  this  chapter  at 
the  end  of  each  week,  retaining  therefrom  for  his  fee  the 
sum  of  fifty  cents  for  each  dog  so  impounded,  and  he  shall 
receive  no  other  or  further  compensation. 

§ 10.  Any  person  or  persons  who  shall  violate  or  fail 
to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  Sec.  5 of  this  Chapter  sha!  1 
be  fined  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dol- 
lars for  each  offense. 

§ 11.  That  the  license  fee  provided  for  in  this  chapter 


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shall  be  in  lieu  of  all  taxes  imposed  upon  do^s  by  the  ordi- 
nances of  this  city. 

§ 12.  That  nothing  in  this  Chapter  contained  shall  be 
construed  as  permitting  dogs  to  run  at  large  unmuzzled 
during  any  period  of  time  when  by  ordinance  or  otherwise 
they  are  prohibited  from  being  so  unmuzzled. 

§ 13.  On  complaint  being  made  to  the  mayor,  of  any 
dog  or  bitch  within  the  city,  which  shall,  by  barking,  bit- 
ing, howling,  or  in  any  other  way  or  manner  disturb  the 
quiet  of  any  person  or  persons  whomsoever,  the  mayor," on 
being  satisfied  of  the  truth  of  such  complaint,  shall  direct 
a police  officer  to  give  notice  thereof  to  the  person  or  per- 
sons keeping  or  permitting  such  dog  or  bitch  to  remain  in 
his  or  her  house,  or  on  his  or  her  premises;  and  in  case 
such  person  or  persons  shall,  for  the  space  of  one  day  after 
such  notice,  neglect  to  cause  such  dog  or  bitch  to  \*e  de- 
stroyed or  removed,  so  as  to  prevent  the  disturbance,  he 
shall  forfeit  and  pay  a sum  not  less  than  five  dollars  for 
every  day  which  shall  elapse  until  such  dog  or  bitch  lie  re- 
moved or  destroyed  as  aforesaid. 


CHAPTER  XVI II. 

ELECTIONS— CON  GEST  OF. 

Sec.  1.  How  election  of  alderman  may  be  contested. 

2.  Contest  heard  before  city  council— statement, 

3.  Council  to  fix  time  and  place  for  depositions. 

4.  Proofs  to  be  filed  with  city  clerk, 

5.  Proofs  referred  to  committee. 

6.  When  election  declared  null  and  void. 

7 Ballots  may  be  opened  and  counted. 

Section  1.  The  election  of  any  alderman  may  be  con- 
tested by  any  elector  ot  the  city,  and  the  proceedings  shall 
be  in  accordance  with  the  general  laws  of  this  state  regu- 


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lating  the  mode  of  contesting  the  elections  of  county  officers, 
so  far  as  the  same  may  be  applicable. 

§ 2.  The  city  council  shall  be  the  tribunal  before  which 
such  contest  shall  be  heard  and  their  decision  shall  be  final. 
When  any  person  shall  desire  to  contest  the  right  of  an- 
other to  hold  the  office  of  alderman,  to  which  such  person 
claims  the  right,  he  shall,  within  sixty  days  after  the  elec- 
tion, file  with  the  city  clerk  a statement  in  writing,  briefly 
setting  forth  the  points  on  which  he  will  contest  the  elec- 
tion, which  statement  will  be  verified  by  affidavit.  Upon 
fili-'g  such  statement,  said  contestant  shall  also  serve  a 
cop3^  thereof  upon  the  person  whose  election  he  intends  to 
contest,  and  in  case  he  is  absent,  or  cannot  be  found,  then 
by  leaving  a copy  of  said  statement  at  contestee’s  usual 
place  of  residence. 

§ 3.  Whenever  said  statement  shall  have  been  filed  and 
served  as  aforesaid,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  council, 
upon  the  application  of  either  party,  to  fix  the  time  and 
place  for  taking  the  depositions  of  witnesses,  when  either 
party  may  proceed  to  take  the  testimony  of  any  witness,  in 
the  manner  and  as  provided  for  taking  depositions  to  be 
used  in  cases  in  chancery,  before  any  judge,  justice  of  the 
peace,  master  in  chancery,  or  notary  public,  at  the  time 
and  place  so  fixed,  and  continue  the  same  from  day  to  day 
thereafter  until  all  the  testimony  shall  have  been  taken, 

§ 4.  In  all  cases  of  contested  elections,  the  proofs  shall 
be  taken  and  filed  with  the  city  clerk  as  hereinafter  provid- 
ed, within  sixty  days  from  the  day  fixed  by  the  city  coun- 
cil for  taking  the  same.  Providefl ^ that  the  council  may, 
from  time  to  time,  upon  sufficient  cause  shown,  extend  the 
time  for  taking  and  filing  said  proofs.  No  testimony  shall 
be  taken  or  produced  on  the  hearing  before  the  city  conn- 


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cil,  except  upon  the  points  set  forth  in  the  said  statement 
required  to  be  filed  with  the  city  clerk,  and  served  upon 
the  respondent. 

§ 5.  When  all  the  evidence  shall  have  been  taken  the 
same  shall  be  filed  forthwith  with  the  city  clerk,  who  shall 
immediately  lay  the  same  before  the  city  council,  an  1 the 
council  shall,  without  delay,  refer  the  same  to  some 
appropriate  committee  to  investig-ate  and  report  upon; 
and  upon  such  report  being  made,  the  council 
shall  decide  the  same  accordinor  to  the  ri«:ht  of  the 
matter,  and  shall  declare  as  elected  the  person  who  shall 
appear  by  the  evidence  to  have  been  elected.  The  council 
may  require  all  the  testimony  and  proofs  taken  to  be  read 
in  open  council. 

§ 6.  Whenever  it  shall  appear  in  any  case  that  the  per- 
son securing  the  highest  number  of  votes  is  ineligible  to 
the  office  because  of  any  legal  disqualification,  it  shall,  for 
that  reason,  be  the  duty  of  the  city  council  to  declare  said 
election  null  and  void,  and  immediately  call  a special  elec- 
tion to  fill  said  office. 

§ 7.  Ill  all  cases  of  contested  elections  the  parties  shall 
have  the  right  to  have  the  package  or  packages  of  ballots 
which  have  been  returned  to  the  city  clerk,  as  required  by 
law,  opened  in  the  presence  of  a committee  of  the  council, 
and  ot  the  person  having  the  custody  thereof,  and  to  have  said 
ballots  counted,  or  the  same  may  be  brought  into  open 
council,  and  then  and  there  counted  by  a committee  of  three 
persons  appointed  for  that  purpose. 


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CHAPTER  XIX. 

FEES. 

Sec.  1.  Fees  of  city  clerk. 

Section  1.  That  the  city  clerk  is  hereby  authorized  to 
demand  and  receive  as  fees  for  the  use  of  the  city  of  Joliet; 
for  each  deed  of  real  estate,  one  dollar;  for  transferring 
each  license,  fifty  cents;  for  the  use  of  the  corporate  seal 
on  any  attestation,  acknowledgement  or  other  certificate, 
fifty  cents;  for  each  certificate  not  under  corporate  seal, 
twenty-five  cents;  administering  oath  and  attesting  the 
same,  twenty-five  cents,  except  td  city  officers;  for  certified 
copies  of  any  record  each  one  hundred  words,  twenty-five 
cents ; and  the  city  clerk  shall  account  for  such  fees  in  his 
monthly  report. 


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CHAPTER  XX. 

FIRE  DEPARTMENT. 


9ec  . 1 . Fire  Department  to  consist  of. 

2.  Compensation  ot  officers  and  members  fixed  by  coiincil, 

3.  Fire  marshal  subject  to  mayor  and  council. 

4.  Fire  ra  *rslial  appointed  by  mayor  and  council. 

5.  Engineers  and  drivers  to  remain  at  engine  houses. 

6.  Mayor  and  fire  marshal  to  appoint  firemen. 

7.  Mayor  and  fire  marshal  to  control  fire  department. 

8.  Fire  marshal  has  control  of  fire  engines. 

9.  City  council  to  direct  payment  of  funds. 

10.  When  not  permitted  to  go  out  of  city  with  engines. 

11.  Fire  marshal  to  keep  certain  books. 

12.  Fire  marshal  to  have  entire  control  of  police  at  fires. 

13.  Fire  marshal  to  examine  buildings. 

14.  Penalty  for  refusing  to  make  repairs. 

15.  No  vehicle  to  be  driven  over  unprotected  hose. 

16.  Fire  marshal  to  designate  who  shall  have  charge  during  absence. 

17.  Gunpowder  dealers  to  report  to  fire  marshal. 

18.  Dii-ection  for  use  of  stoves. 

19.  How  stoves  and  pipes  shall  be  placed  and  protected. 

20.  Duties  of  mayor,  aldermen,  chief  of  police,  etc. 

21.  No  hay  or  straw  shall  be  placed. 

22.  Stacking  hay  or  straw. 

23.  Directing  lighted  candles  or  lamps  in  barns. 

24 . Fires  not  to  be  kindled  in  streets  or  alleys. 

25.  Penalty  for  violating  provisions  ot  this  chapter. 

26.  Duties  of  officers  to  see  this  chapter  obeyed. 

Section  1.  The  fire  department  shall  eonsist  of  one  fire 
marshal,  and  such  engineers,  drivers,  firemen  and  members^ 
as  the  city  council  may  provide  for  in  the  annual  appro- 
priation ordinance. 

§ 2.  The  compensation  of  the  officers  and  members  of 
the  fire  department  shall  be  such  as  may  be  fixed  from  time 
to  time  by  the  city  council. 

§>3.  That  the  fire  marshal  shall  be  subject  to  the  control 
of  the  mayor  and  council,  and  shall  hold  his  office  during 
the  pleasure  of  the  mayor  and  council,  and  may  be  re- 
moved at  the  end  of  any  month  if  the  mayor  and  council  so 
elect. 


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177 


§ 4.  That  the  fire  marshal  shall  be  appointed  by  the 
mayor  and  confirmed  by  the  council  at  the  first  reg*ular 
meeting  in  May  of  each  year. 

§ 5.  That  the  engineers  and  drivers  shall  remain  at  their 
respective  engine  houses  and  devote  their  whole  time  to  the 
city,  under  control  of  the  fire  marshal. 

§ 6.  That  the  mayor  and  fire  marshal  shall  appoint  all 
members  of  the  fire  department,  and  the  fire  marshal  shall 
provide  a stoker  for  the  engines,  from  his  firemen, 

§ 7.  4'hat  the  exclusive  control  of  the  fire  department 
in  all  matters  except  expenditures  is  hereby  vested  in  the 
mayor  and  fire  marshal. 

§ 8.  That  the  fire  marshal  is  hereby  vested  with  full  and 
complete  control  and  charge  of  the  fire  engines,  and  all 
apparatus  and  fixtures,  belonging  to  the  same,  and  he  shall 
personally  see  that  they  are  all  kept  in  good  condition,  and 
for  that  purpose  he  shall  be  the  sole  judge,  and  shall  have 
full  power  to  direct  as  to  the  manner  in  which  the  same 
shall  be  kept,  and  when  it  is  necessary  to  clean  and  attend 
to  the  same. 

§ 9.  No  money  shall  be  paid  out  for  said  fire  department, 
or  repairs  made,  or  supplies  of  any  kind  purchased  for  said 
fire  department,  without  the  permission  of  the  city  council, 
except  in  case  of  minor  expenses  by  some  sudden  exigency, 
and  in  such  case  the  committee  on  fire'  and  water,  and  fire 
marshal  shall  have  power  to  act.  ' 

§ 10.  No  company  shall  be  permitted  to  go  with  their 
engines  or  other  apparatus  beyond  the  limits  of  the  city 
without  the  consent  of  the  city  council,  unless  it  be  to  at- 
tend fires  in  adjacent  cities  or  the  suburbs,  when  it  will  be 
necessary  to  obtain  the  consent  of  the  mayor,  or  in  his  ab- 
sence the  consent  of  the  committee  on  fire  and  water. 


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§ 11.  The  fire  marshal  shall  keep  the  following  de- 
scribed books,  subject  at  all  times  to  the  inspection  of  the 
members  of  the  city  council.  A book  containing  a com- 
plete list  of  all  olficers  and  men  in  the  service  of  the  city  as 
firemen,  showing  the  nativity,  age  and  former  occupation 
of  each  member,  name  of  his  office  or  duty,  the  company  to 
which  he  belongs^  the  date  of  his  entering  service,  and  such 
other  facts  as  may  be  deemed  necessary,  also  a record  of 
fires  in  a book  suitably  headed,  of  alarm,  location,  class  of 
building,  name  of  owner  and  occupant,  use,  cause  of  fire, 
personal  injuries  or  death  of  firemen  or  citizens,  total 
amount  of  loss,  and  total  amount  of  insurance;  he  shall  al- 
so make  out  an  annual  report,  exhibiting  in  detail,  the 
operations  of  the  fire  department,  under  his  supervision  the 
preceding  year,  including  an  exhibit  in  detail  of  receipts 
and  expenditures,  with  an  inventory  of  all  the  property  be- 
longing to  the  department  at  the  date  of  his  report,  and  re- 
port the  same  to  the  city  council  at  the  first  regular  meet- 
ing in  May  of  each  year. 

§ 12.  That  the  fire  marshal  shall  have  sole  control  of  the 
police  when  at  fires,  as  well  as  all  persons  present,  and  may 
appoint  persons  to  assist  in  protecting  property  in  such 
manner  as  he  may  deem  necessary,  the  council  to  pay  such 
persons  a reasonable  compensation  for  service  so  rendered 
when  so  recommended  by  the  fire  marshal. 

§ 13.  The  fire  marshal  is  hereby  authorized  to  examine 
any  building  in  the  city  as  often  as  he  may  deem  necessary, 
and  to  cause  the  owners  or  occupants  thereof  to  make  such 
repairs  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  protection  of  property 
and  life;  and  no  building  erected  within  the  city  limits  in 
which  fire  is  to  be  used,  shall  be  plastered  until  inspected 
!)y  the  fire  marshal,  the  owners  or  builders  of  any  such 


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179 


biiildiiio’  to  report  to  the  tire  marshal  when  such  building  is 
ready  for  inspection. 

§ 14.  Aii}^  person  refusing  or  neglecting  to  make  such 
repairs  as  provided  in  the  foregoing  section,  when  ordered 
so  to  do  by  the  tire  marshal,  or  such  report  as  therein  pro- 
vided, shall,  at  the  expiration  of  five  days  from  the  time  of 
such  notification  concerning  repairs  or  failure  concerning 
such  report,  on  conviction  forfeit  and  pay  a fine  of  not  less 
than  five  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  such  refusal 
or  neglect.  Provided^  however,  that  any  party  feeling 
himself  aggrieved  by  the  act  of  the  fire  marshal,  may,  be- 
fore prosecution  is  commenced,  have  an  appeal  to  the  com- 
mittee on  fire  and  water,  and,  if  upon  investigation,  the 
committee  find  that  said  party  has  not  violated  Section 
Thirteen  of  this  chapter,  then  no  prosecution  shall  be  com- 
menced. If,  however,  the  committee  find  that  said  party 
has  violated  said  Section  Thirteen  of  this  chapter,  then  the 
fire  marshal  may  proceed  against  said  otfenders  as  in  other 
cases. 

§ 15.  No  wagon,  street  railroad  car,  or  other  vehicle, 
shall  be  driven  over  any  unprotected  hose  of  the  fire  de- 
partment of  the  city  of  Joliet,  when  laid  down  on  any  street 
or  alley,  to  be  used  at  any  fire  or  alarm  of  fire,  without'  the 
consent  of  the  fire  marshal  or  the  assistant  in  command, 
and  any  person  violating  this  section  shall  be  subject  to 
the  penalty  of  not  less  than  three  dollars  nor  more  than 
one  hundred  dollars  for  each  oflfense.  The  fire  marshal 
shall  procure  and  cause  to  be  carried  with  each  hose  cart 
at  every  alarm  of  fire,  efficient  protectors,  which  shall  be 
laid  down  when  said  hose  is  laid  on  any  street  or  alley,  in 
such  manner  as  to  protect  said  hose  from  injury  when  ve- 
hicles are  driven  over  the  same. 


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§ 16.  The  fire  marshal  shall  designate  some  discreet  and 
competent  person,  who  shall  have  command  at  all  fires  from 
which  such  fire  marshal  may  from  any  cause  be  absent,  and 
when  so  designated,  and  the  members  of  the  fire  depart- 
ment duly  notified  thereof,  he  shall  exercise  like  powers  as 
might  be  exercised  by  the  fire  marshal  if  present. 

§ 17.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  persons  in  the  city,  who 
deal  in  gunpowder,  to  report  to  the  fire  marshal,  in  writ- 
ing, in  the  month  of  September  of  each  year,  the  average 
quantity  of  gunpowder  kept  upon  the  premises,  and  where 
kept;  a failure  of  any  person  dealing  in  gunpowder  to  re- 
port as  above,  will  subject  the  offender,  upon  the  com- 
plaint of  the  fire  marshal,  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dol- 
lars nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 18.  That  it  shall  not  hereafter  be  lawful  for  any  per- 
son to  erect  or  use,  any  stove  or  stovepipe,  in  the  city  of 
Joliet,  except  in  accordance  with  the  following  provisions 
of  this  chapter. 

§ 19.  Every  stove  in  use  shall  be  placed  upon  a floor  or 
platform  of  bricks  or  zinc,  or  other  incombustible  material, 
of  sufficient  thickness  and  extent  to  prevent  all  danger  of 
fire  to  any  floor  or  other  woodwork  from  such  stove ; and 
all  other  fire  places  and  hearths  of  every  description  shall 
be  kept  in  good  and  sufficient  repair  to  prevent  any  danger 
from  fire ; stovepipes  shall  not  be  less  than  three  inches 
from  wood  or  other  combustible  materials,  unless  there  is 
a double  circle  of  tin  connected  together,  and  air  holes  be- 
tween the  connection  and  the  wood  or  other  combustible 
substances;  and  all  horizontal  pipes,  or  portions  of  pipe  not 
perpendicular,  shall  be  supported  by  wires  or  other  proper 
supporters,  so  as  to  prevent  all  danger  of  the  falling  of 
such  pipes;  no  stovepipe  shall  discharge  or  terminate  at 


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181 


any  distance  less  than  three  teet  from  the  roof,  or  any  other 
wood- work  ot  any  building  so  as  to  endanger  the  same,  nor 
into  any  street  or  alley. 

§ 20.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  mayor,  aldermen,  chief 
of  policemen  and  fire  marshal  of  the  fire  department  in 
said  city,  to  examine  carefully  at  all  times  during  the  year, 
every  house,  store,  warehouse,  shop  or  building,  and  places 
for  the  keeping  and  deposit  of  ashes,  chips  or  shavings,  and 
also  to  remove  and  abate  any  cause  from  which  immediate 
danger  of  fire  may  be  apprehended ; and  to  cause  all  build- 
ings, chimneys,  stoves,  pipes,  hearths,  ovens,  boilers,  ash 
houses,  ash  barrels,  smoke  houses,  and  all  fixtures,  things 
and  apparatus  used  in  or  about  every  building  which  shall 
be  found  in  such  a condition  as  to  be  considered  unsafe,  to  be 
without  delay,  at  the  expense  of  the  owner  or  occupant 
thereof,  put  in  such  condition  as  not  to  be  dangerous  in 
causing  or  promoting  fires. 

§ 21.  No  hay,  straw,  or  other  combustible  material  or 
substance  shall  be  placed  or  deposited  in  said  city,  within 
twenty  feet  of  any  place  where  fire  or  ashes  are  kept,  un- 
less the  same  be  kept  in  a close  and  secure  building. 

§ 22.  No  person  shall  deposit  or  stack  any  hay,  straw, 
or  other  combustible  substance  within  forty  feet  of  any 
dwelling  house  or  other  building  in  said  city,  where  fire 
may  be  kept. 

§ 23.  No  lighted  candle  or  lamp  shall  be  used  in  any 
stable,  barn,  or  other  place  or  building  where  hay,  straw, 
or  other  combustible  material  shall  be  kept,  unless  the 
same  shall  be  well  secured  in  a lantern ; nor  shall  any  fire 
be  kept  in  any  stove  or  other  place  in  any  such  building  or 
room  where  combustible  material  is  kept,  unless  in  such 
manner  as  the  fire  marshal  and  chief  of  police,  by  written 


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permission,  shall  authorize  and  allow,  nor  shall  any  person 
carry  fire  in  or  through  any  street  or  lot  or  other  public  or 
private  place,  except  the  same  be  placed  or  covered  in 
some  close  or  secure  pan  or  vessel. 

§ 24.  No  person  shall,  in  any  of  the  streets,  lanes,  ave- 
nues, alleys  public,  square  or  grounds  of  said  city,  make 
or  kindle  any. fire;  nor  shall  any  person  make  or  kindle 
any  fire  on  any  private  lot  in  said  city,  if  there  be  danger 
of  fire  to  any  buildings  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  same. 

§ 25.  Any  person  or  persons  who  shall  violate  any  of  the 
provisions  of  the  foregoing  sections  of  this  chapter,  shall, 
on  conviction,  forfeit  and  pay  a fine  of  not  less  than  three 
dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  every  of- 
fense. 

§ 26.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  officers  named  in  the 
Twentieth  Section  of  this  chapter  to  see  that  all  the  provis- 
ions herein  are  complied  with,  and  to  make  complaint  be- 
fore a police  magistrate  for  any  violation  of  the  same. 


CHAPTER  XXI. 

FIRE  LIMITS, 


SEC.  1.  Defining  flre  limits. 

8.  Defining  how  buildings  shall  be  erected. 

8.  Sheds,  privies,  deposits  of  ashes. 

4.  Plans  of  buildings  in  fire  limits  to  be  submitted  to  committee. 

5.  Who  constitute  the  building  committee. 

6.  Committee  to  examine  and  investigate  plans,  etc. 

7.  Wooden  buildings,  removal,  repairs,  etc . 

8.  Amount  of  damage,  referred  to  committee.  ' 

9.  l^enalties  for  violations  of  this  chapter. 

10.  What  buildings  declared  a nuisance. 

Section  1.  That  all  that  part  ot  the  city  of  Joliet  em- 
braced within  the  following  limits,  shall  hereafter  be 
known  as  the  fire  limits  of  the  city  of  Joliet:  On  the  east 


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side  of  the  riA*er  as  follows : Beginning  at  the  east  bank  of 
the  Desplaines  river,  at  the  center  ot  Van  Buren  street, 
running  south  on  the  east  bank  of  said  river,  to  the  center 
of  Washington  street,  thence  east  on  Washington  street 
to  the  center  line  of  Joliet  street,  thence  south  on  the 
center  line  of  Joliet  street  to  the  center  line  of  La- 
fayette street,  thence  east  on  the  center  line  of  La- 
fayette street  to  the  center  line  of  Chicago  street, 
thence  north  on  the  center  line  of  Chicago  street  to 
the  center  line  of  Washington  street,  thence  east  on  the 
center  line  of  Washington  street  to  the  center  line  of  Mich- 
igan street,  north  on  the  center  line  of  Michigan  street  to 
the  center  line  of  Van  Buren  street,  thence  west  on  the 
center  line  of  Van  Buren  street  to  the  centre  line  of  Scott 
street,  thence  north  on  the  center  line  of  Scott  street  to  the 
center  line  of  ^Vebster  street,  thence  west  on  the  center 
line  of  AVebster  street  to  the  center  line  of  Ottawa  street, 
thence  south  on  the  center  line  of  Ottawa  street  to  the  cen- 
ter line  of  Cass  street,  thence  west  on  the  center  line  of 
Cass  street  to  the  center  line  of  Joliet  street,  thence  south 
on  the  center  line  of  Joliet  street  to  the  center  line  ot  Van 
Buren  street,  thence  west  on  the  cejiter  line  of  Van  Buren 
street  to  the  place  ot  beginning. 

On  the  west  side  of  the  river  the  fire  limits  shall  be  as 
follows  : 

Beginning  at  the  west  bank  of  the  Desplaines  river,  at 
the  center  of  Western  avenue,  thence  west  on  t^'ie  center 
lineol  Western  avenue  to  the  center  line  of  Block  ten,  west 
Joliet,  thence  south  on  the  center  lines  of  Blocks  ten,  fif- 
teen and  nineteen,  west  Joliet,  and  Blocks  six  and  sixteen 
in  school  section  addition,  to  Marion  street,  thence  east  on 
said  Marion  street  to  the  west  bank  of  the  Desplaines 


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river,  thence  north  on  the  line  of  the  west  bank  of  the 
river  to  the  place  ot  beginning. 

§ 2.  No  building  shall  hereafter  be  erected  within  the 
fire  limits,  without  permission  first  being  obtained  of  the 
city  council,  unless  the  same  shall  be  constructed  in  con- 
formity with  the  following  provisions : 

First. — All  outside  walls  shall  be  made  of  stone,  brick, 
or  other  fire  proof  material. 

Second.— Outside  walls  not  exceeding  twenty-four  feet 
in  height  from  the  top  of  the  sidewalk  to  the  under  side  of 
the  joists  or  rafters  (except  for  mills,  stores,  breweries, 
and  warehouses,)  shall  not  be  less  than  eight  inches  in 
thickness,  if  of  brick,  nor  less  than  sixteen  inches  if  of 
stone;  but  stores,  mills,  breweries  and  warehouses,  ex- 
ceeding twenty-four  feet  in  height  as  aforesaid,  shall  not  be 
less  than  twelve  inches  in  thickness,  if  of  brick,  nor  less 
than  eighteen  inches  in  thickness  if  of  stone. 

Third.— -All  joist,  beams  and  other  timbers  inside  or  out- 
side shall  be  separated  at  least  four  inches  from  each  other, 
with  stone  or  brick  laid  in  mortar,  and  all  wooden  lintel 
pieces  in  the  front  or  rear  walls  shall  recede  from  the  out- 
side of  the  walls  at  least  four  inches,  except  that  lintels 
of  timber  may  be  used  in  rear  of  cast  iron  fronts,  and  plates 
of  wood  may  he  used  in  cornices  covered  with  copper,  tin, 
iron,  or  other  fire  proof  materials,  which  recede  four  in- 
ches from  the  outside  or  front  as  aforesaid. 

Fourth, — Roofs,  cornices  and  gutters,  shall  be  covered 
on  the  outside  surface  with  copper,  tin,  iron,  or  other  fire 
proof  material,  and  all  buildings  to  be  used  for  stores  or 
warehouse  purposes  which  exceed  twenty-four-feet  in  height 
from  the  top  of  the  sidewalk  to  the  under  side  of  the  raft- 
ers, shall  have  shutters,  to  all  outside  doors  and  windows 


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185 


(except  ill  front)  made  of  iron  or  covered  with  iron  or 
other  fire  proof  material,  but  steeples,  cupolas,  spires  of 
churches  or  other  public  buildings  belonging  to  Will 
county  or  the  city,  which  shall  stand  ten  feet  from  any 
^other  building  may  be  covered  with  boards  or  shingles. 

Fifth. — There  shall  not  be  more  than  thirty  feet  space 
between  outside  walls  of  any  building,  unless  such  build- 
ing shall  be  supported  by  iron  or  other  columns  or  sup- 
porters of  fire  proof  material. 

Sixth. — All  end  walls  shall  extend  above  the  slating  of 
the  roof,  at  least  seven  inches  of  three  courses  of  brick, 
and  in  no  case  shall  the  planking  or  slating  of  the  roof 
extend  across  the  end  of  the  wall. 

§ 3.  Sheds,  not  exceeding  twelve  feet  in  height  at  the 
peak  or  the  highest  part  thereof,  and  privies,  not  exceed- 
ing ten  feet  square  and  twelve  feet  in  height  at  the  peak, 
may  be  constructed  of  wood,  and  shall  not  be  subject  to 
the  provisions  of  this  chapter;  Provided^  that  the  term 
shed  be  so  construed  as  to  mean  a structure  with  a roof 
sloping  one  way,  with  one  or  more  sides  to  said  structure 
entirely  open.  But  all  depositories  for  ashes,  within  or 
without  the  fire  limits  shall  be  built  of  brick  or  other  fire- 
proof material,  without  wood  in  any  part  thereof. 

§ 4.  That  all  persons  desiring  to  erect  any  building  or 
buildings  within  the  fire  limits  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  as  es- 
tablished by  this  chajDter,  or  to  alter  or  repair  any  such 
building  or  buildings,  shall,  before  commencing  the  same, 
submit  the  plans  and  specifications  to  the  committee  on 
buildings  provided  in  Section  5 of  this  chapter. 

§ 5.  That  said  committee  on  buildings,  shall  consist  of 
the  city  engineer  and  the  three  members  of  the  committee 


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on  public  grounds  and  buildings,  as  appointed  by  the 
mayor. 

§ 6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  committee  on  buildings 
to  examine  and  investigate  all  plans  .and  specifications  sub- 
mitted to  them  for  inspection,  and  to  issue  a written  or 
printed  permit  to  construct,  alter  or  repair  the  building  or 
buildings,  in  such  cases  only  where  the  plans  and  specifi- 
cations are  in  conformity  with  the  provisions  of  this  chap- 
ter: Providing^  however,  that  no  permit  shall  be  required 
for  ordinary  repairs,  either  internal  or  external,  which  do 
not  increase  the  size  of  the  building  or  alter  the  conditions 
as  afire  risk. 

§ 7.  No  wooden  building  or  part  of  building,  or  any 
part  of  a wooden  building  within  the  fire  limits  shall 
be  raised,  repaired,  enlarged,  or  removed  to  any  other 
place  within  the  same,  nor  shall  any  wooden  building  be 
removed  into  the  fire  limits,  without  permission  first  being 
obtained  of  the  city  council;  Provided^  that  when  the  side- 
walk may  be  raised  above  the  threshold  of  any  building, 
said  building  may  be  so  raised,  and  so  far  raised  as  to  keep 
the  first  floor  a reasonable  distance,  not  to  exceed  six 
inches  above  the  sidewalk,  nor  shall  any  wooden  building 
within  said  limits  which  hereafter  may  be  damaged  to  the 
extent  of  fifty  per  cent,  of  the  value  thereof,  be  lepaired  or 
rebuilt,  nor  shall  any  such  building,  when  the  damage  is 
less  than  fifty  per  cent,  of  its  value,  be  so  repaired  as  to  be 
raised  higher  than  the  highest  part  left  standing  after  such 
damage  shall  have  occured,  or  so  as  to  occupy  a greater 
space  than  before  the  injury  thereto. 

§ 8.  The  amount  or  extent  of  damage  that  may  be  done 
to  any  building  may  be  determined  by  three  disinterested 
persons,  residents  of  the  city,  one  of  whom  shall  be  selected 


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by  the  owner  of  the  building,  the  second  by  the  mayor  or 
any  two  members  of  the  committee  on  buildings,  and  the 
two  so  chosen  shall  select  a third,  and  the  decision  of  the  per- 
sons so  appointed  shall  be  final  and  conclusive ; and  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  owner  of  any  building  before  said  reference 
is  made,  to  deposit  with  the  city  clerk  the  sum  of  six  dol- 
lars, which  sum  shall  be  applied  to  the  payment  of  refer- 
ence expenses,  the  remainder,  if  any,  shall  be  returned  to 
such  owner. 

§ 9.  Any  owner,  builder,  or  other  person  who  shall 
own,  build,  or  aid  in  the  erection  of  any  building,  or  part 
of  building,  within  the  said  limits  contrary  to,  or  in  any 
other  manner,  than  authorized  by  the  provisions  of  this 
chapter,  or  who  shall  own,  remove,  or  assist  in  removing 
any  wooden  building  within  said  limits,  from  one  place  to 
another  therein,  or  who  shall  own,  remove  or  assist  in  re- 
moving any  such  building  from  without  said  limits  into  the 
same,  or  own,  repair  or  assist  in  repairing  any  damaged 
wooden  building,  contrary  in  either  case  to  any  provisions 
ef  this  chapter,  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than 
twenty-five  dollars,  and  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars, 
in  the  discretion  of  the  court,  for  the  first  offense,  and  to 
like  fine  for  every  forty-eight  hours  such  person  shall  fail 
to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  or  continue 
in  the  violation  thereof. 

If  any  person  shall  violate  any  other  provision  of  this 
chapter  he  shall  be  subject  to  like  fine. 

§ 10.  Any  wooden  building  which  may  be  erected,  en- 
larged, removed  or  repaired,  or  in  process  of  erection, 
enlargement,  removed  or  repaired  contrary  to  this  chapter, 
shall  be  deemed  a nuisance ; and  upon  information  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  mayor,  after  due  notice  to  the  owner  or 


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builder  thereof,  to  abate  the  same,  by  an  order  in  writing- 
to  require  the  chief  of  police  to  raze  such  building  to  the 
ground.  The  expense  of  such  removal  shall  be  reported 
by  the  chief  of  police  for  assessment  by  the  city  council, 
and  may  be  collected  of  the  party  offending,  by  suit. 


CHAPTER  XXII. 

FISCAL  YEAK. 

Sec  . 1.  Fixing  the  fiscal  year. 

Section  1.  That  the  fiscal  year,  as  contemplated  by  Sec- 
tion 89  of  an  act  entitled  “An  act  tor  the  incorporation  of 
cities  and  villages,”  approved  April  10th,  1872,  and  in  force 
July  1st,  1872,  and  adopted  by  the  city  of  Joliet,  August 
5th,  1876,  shall  commence  on  the  first  day  of  July  of  each 
year,  and  end  on  the  30th  day  of  June,  next  succeeding. 


CHAPTER  xxm 

GUNPOWDEE. 

Sec.  1.  Gtmpowder,  how  and  where  stored. 

2,  Certain  quantities  may  be  kept  by  retailers,  how  and  on  what  terms. 

3.  Duty  of  mayor  to  search  for  powder. 

Section  1.  That  no  person  shall  keep  or  store  any  gun- 
powder in  any  house,  store  or  warehouse,  or  other  place 
within  the  corporate  limits  of  the  city,  under  a penalty  of 
one  hundred  dollars  for  every  offense,  unless  the  same  is 
stored  in  a fire  proof  magazine,  to  be  located  and  approved 


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189 


by  the  mayor  and  fire  marshal  of  the  fire  department; 
Provided,  That  this  Section  shall  not  be  deemed  applicable 
to  retailers  of  gunpowder. 

§ 2.  No  retailers  of  gunpowder  shall  keep  or  store  any 
quantity  thereof  greater  than  twenty-five  pounds  weight 
ill  any  storehouse,  shop  or  place  within  the  corporate  limits 
of  the  city,  except  in  the  magazine  aforesaid;  Provided, 
also,  that  said  quantity  of  twenty-five  pounds  weight  shall 
be  kept  in  close  tin  or  copper  canisters,  containing  not 
over  five  pounds  each ; and  no  such  retailer  of  gunpowder 
shall  be  permitted  to  sell,  retail  or  give  away  the  same  in 
said  city  after  candle  lighting  in  the  evening : and  every 
person  violating  the  provisions  of  this  Section  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  a penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more 
than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ o.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  mayor,  when  complaint 
is  made  to  him  by  any  city  officer,  or  upon  the  affidavit  of 
any  citizen,  stating  there  is  probable  cause  to  suspect  any 
person  of  keeping  or  concealing  any  gunpowder  contrary 
to  the  provisions  ot  this  chapter,  to  take  with  him  the  chief 
of  police,  or  any  police  officer,  and  search  and  examine  any 
place  within  the  corporate  limits  of  the  city,  to  ascertain 
the  truth  of  such  allegation  or  suspicion;  and  if  it  be 
found  on  examination  of  any  premises  as  aforesaid,  that 
gunpowder  is  therein  concealed,  the  offender  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  a }3cnalty  of  one  hundred  dollars,  and  a turther  sum 
of  one  hundred  dollars  for  every  twenty-four  hours  that 
said  gunpowder  may  remain  within  the  corporate  limits  of 
the  city,  after  one  day’s  verbal  or  written  notice  has  been 
given  by  the  mayor,  chief  of  police,  or  fire  marshal,  to  re- 
move the  same. 


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CHAPTER  XXIV. 


HEALTH. 

Skc.  1.  Board  of  health  to  consist  of,  and  how  organized. 

2.  Division  of  districts,  salary. 

3.  Duties  of  chief  of  police. 

4.  Board  to  exercise  supervision  over  health  of  city. 

5.  Neglect  to  comply  with  orders  of  the  hoard. 

6.  Persons  removed  for  contagious  disease . 

7.  Penalty  tor  bringing  persons,  etc.,  with  contagious  disease. 

8.  No  resident,  etc.,  to  leave  infected  house. 

9.  E xposing  infected  clothing,  penalty . 

10.  Board  to  compel  boats  to  perform  quarantine  duty. 

11.  Board  to  have  full  power  to  enter  into  any  boat  for  examination. 

12.  Penalty  for  refusing  the  board  to  enter  houses,  etc.,  to  examine. 

13.  Board  of  health  may  require  vaccination. 

14.  Board  of  health  to  make  rules  for  government  of  quarantine . 

15.  Power  of  board  to  abate  nuisance. 

16.  Penalty  tor  refusing  to  comply  with  order  ol  board. 

17.  No  privy  to  be  cleaned  till  disinfected. 

18.  Board  to  require  person.s  to  be  vaccinated. 

19.  Persons  prohibited  from  offering  tainted  meat,  penalty. 

20.  Unlawful  to  slaughter  bruised  or  maimed  animals. 

21.  Unlawful  to  transport  meat,  etc.,  through  the  city  in  daytime, 

uncovered. 

22.  Unlawful  to  transport  bones  or  grease  from  market  uncovered. 

23.  Unlawful  to  sell  skimmed  milk. 

24.  Board  to  exercise  a sanitary  supervision  over  health  of  city. 

25.  Board  concurrent  with  city  council  to  define  nuisances. 

26.  All  persons  required  to  obey  board  of  health,  penalty. 

27.  Every  person  practicing  physic  in  city  to  report,  penalty. 

28.  Board  to  examine  accounts  and  report  monthly. 

29.  Board  to  keep  account  of  expenses . 

30.  Unlawful  to  keep  hogs  penned  in  certain  localities. 

31.  In  absence  of  president'  board  to  elect  chairman  pro  tem. 

Section  2.  That  the  board  of  health  of  the  city  of  Joliet 
shall  consist  of  three  persons,  who  shall  be  appointed  by 
the  mayor  and  confirmed  by  the  city  council,  and  shall 
hold  their  office  for  one  year  from  the  time  they  are  ap- 
pointed. The  city  clerk  shall  be  an  ex  ojfich  member  and 
act  as  secretary  of  said  board.  The  board  shall  organize  by 
electing  one  of  their  number  president,  and  shall  meet  in 
die  council  room  in  said  city,  once  every  two  weeks,  be- 
ween  the  first  day  of  May  and  the  first  day  of  f October  in 


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each  year,  and  once  a month  from  the  first  day  of  October 
till  the  first  day  of  May,  and  at  such  other  times  as  may  be 
deemed  adA  i sable  by  the  President  of  said  board.  A major- 
ity of  said  board  shall  constitute  a qiiornm  to  do  business. 
The  proceedings  of  said  board  of  health  shall  be  conducted 
as  near  as  may  be,  in  conformity  to  the  rules  and  regu- 
lations of  the  city  council. 

§ 2.  For  the  purpose  of  looking  after  the  health  of  said 
city  there  shall  be  one  member  of  said  board  from  each  of 
the  tolloAAnng  districts : First  District. — All  the  territory 

lying  east  of  the  Chicago  & Alton  Kailroad ; Second  Dis- 
trict.— All  the  territory  lying  betAveen  the  Chicago  & Alton 
Railroad  and  the  Desplaines  river;  Third  District. — All 
the  territory  lying  Avest  of  the  Desplaines  riA^er.  Each 
member  of  said  board  shall  receive  as  compensation  for  his 
services  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars  per  annum  Avdthout 
any  other  fee  or  emolument  for  their  services. 

§ 3.  The  chief  of  police  shall  attend  all  meetings  of  the 
board  of  health,  and  cause  all  precepts  and  notices  signed 
by  the  president  and  attested  by  the  clerk,  or  a majority  of 
the  board,  to  be  served,  and  he  shall  execute  or  cause  to  be 
executed  all  orders  of  said  board  Avhich  may  be  directed  to 
him. 

§ 4.  Said  board  shall  exercise  a general  supervision  over 
the  health  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  with  full  poAver  and  author- 
ity to  take  all  steps, and  use  all  measures  necessary  to  promote 
the  cleanliness  and  health  thereof,  to  abate  nuisances  of  oa^- 
ery  description,  both  on  public  and  private  property;  to 
prevent  the  introduction  into  the  city  of  malignant  and  in- 
fectious diseases,  and  to  renioA^e  or  otherAvise  dispose  of 
any  person  attacked  l>y  any  such  diseases,  and  to  adopt  in 
reference  to  such  persons  any  regulations  or  measures 


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deemed  advisable,  and  to  establish  rules  and  regulations  for 
the  general  health  of  the  city. 

§ 5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  president  of  the  board 
of  health,  together  with  the  clerk  or  a majority  of  the 
board  of  health,  to  serve  a notice  in  writing,  signed  by  the 
president  of  the  board  of  health,  and  attested  by  the  clerk 
thereof,  upon  the  owner,  occupant  or  agent  of  any  building 
or  premises,  in  or  upon  which  any  nuisance  maybe  found, 
or  who  may  be  the  owner  or  cause  of  such  nuisance,  re- 
cpiiring  them  to  abate  the  same  in  such  manner  as  they 
shall  in  said  notice  direct. 

§ 6.  Whenever  it  shall  appear  to  the  board  of  health, 
that  any  person  has  been  attacked  with  any  contageous  dis- 
ease, said  board  shall  have  full  power  to  cause  said  person 
to  be  removed  immediately  to  some  retired  place;  and 
said  board  shall  take  such  measures  as  may  be  deemed 
advisable  to  prevent' as  far  as  possible  the  spread  of  conta- 
gion or  infection,  and  cause  the  person  afflicted  to  receive 
proper  and  humane  attention. 

§ 7.  If  any  person  in  charge  of  any  boat,  vessel,  rail- 
road car,  or  any  other  conveyance,  shall  knowingly  land 
or  bring  on  shore  at,  or  convey  to  the  city  of  Joliet,  or 
within  five  miles  of  the  corporate  limits  thereof,  any  per- 
son infected  with  any  contageous  disease,  or  any  goods  or 
effects  of  any  such  person,  without  permission  from  the 
board,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  city  of  Joliet,  not 
less  than  twenty-five  dollars  nor  more  than  two  hundred 
dollars. 

§ 8.  Xo  person  who  is  a resident,  inhabitant,  lodger  or 
visitor  in  any  house  in  the  city  of  Joliet,  in  which  any 
other  person  shall  be  sick  or  affected  with  smallpox  or 


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varioloid,  shall  after  the  time  -when  such  person  shall 
])ecome  so  sick  or  affected,  depart  from  such  house  or  build- 
ing, or  go  upon  the  streets  or  alleys  of  the  city,  nor  upon 
any  adjacent  lot,  nor  outside  of  said  building  and  upon  the 
lot  on  which  said  building  is  situated,  without  the  written 
permission  of  the  president  or  a majority  of  the  board  of 
health;  and  any  person  violating  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more 
than  fifty  dollars  for  the  first  offense,  and  for  the  second 
ofiense  to  be  imprisoned  not  to  exceed  ten  days. 

§ 9.  Any  person  who  shall  expose  any  clothing,  or  any 
article  or  thing  used  or  kept  within  any  house  where  any 
person  shall  be  sick  or  affected  Avith  small  pox  or  varioloid 
in  the  city  of  Joliet,  except  under  the  order  and  direction 
of  the  board  of  health,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  five  nor 
more  than  tw^enty-five  dollars  for  every  such  offense. 

§ 10.  That  the  board  of  health  shall  have  full  power 
and  authority  to  compel  all  boats,  vessels  and  Avater  craft, 
to  perform  quarantine  for  such  length  of  time,  not  exceed- 
ing thirty  days,  as  said  board  may  determine,  and  in  case 
the  person  in  charge  of  any  such  water  craft  shall  fail  or 
refuse  to  comply  Avith  the  order  of  the  board  of  health, 
the  president  of  said  board  shall  have  power  to  call  to  his 
assistance  the  poAv^er  of  the  entire  police  force  of  the  city, 
and  remove  said  boat,  vessel  or  water  craft  to  a place  to 
be  designated  by  said  board,  and  require  the  person  in 
charge  of  such  boat  or  vessel  to  thoroughly  cleanse  and 
fumigate  said  boat  or  vessel  so  removed. 

§ 11.  The  board  of  health  shall  have  full  power  and 
authority  at  all  times,  or  any  officer  by  them  designated 
for  that  purpose,  to  enter  into  any  boat,  vessel  or  other 
water  craft,  for  the  purpose  of  examining  the  same,  and 


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the  person  in  charge  of  any  such  boat,  vessel  or  other 
water  craft,  shall,  at  the  time  of  the  examination,  make  a 
true  statement  of  the  condition  of  all  persons  on  board  of 
same,  from  the  time  such  boat  or  vessel  or  craft  departed 
from  the  port  or  place  whence  she  departed,  up  to  the  time 
of  such  examination,  and  for  a failure  to  comply  with  the 
requirements  of  this  section,  such  person  shall  forfeit  and 
pay  to  the  city  of  Joliet  the  sum  of  not  less  than  twenty- 
five  dollars  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars. 

§ 12.  The  board  of  health  or  any  member  thereof,  are 
hereby  authorized  and  empowered  in  the  day  time  to  enter 
all  houses  and  other  places  in  this  city,  whenever  in  their 
judgment  the  public  interest  requires  them  so  to  do,  and 
any  person  who  shall  interfere  or  prevent  them  or  either  of 
said  board  or  any  person  by  them  lawfully  authorized, shall 
forfeit  and  pay  to  the  city  of  Joliet,  not  less  than  five  nor 
more  than  two  hundred  dollars. 

§ 13.  That  the  board  of  health  may  take  such  measures 
as  they  from  time  to  time  deem  proper  to  prevent  the 
spread  of  the  smallpox  by  issuing  an  order  requiring  all 
persons  in  the  city,  or  any  part  thereof,  requiring  vaccin- 
ation, to  be  vaccinated  within  such  time  as  they  shall  pre- 
scribe, and  all  persons  refusing  or  neglecting  to  obey  such 
order,  shall  be  liable  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars 
nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars.  Provided^  that  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  board  to  provide  for  the  vaccination  of 
such  persons  as  are  unable  to  pay  for  the  same  at  the 
expense  of  the  fijity. 

§ 14.  The  said  board  of  health  shall  make  such  rules 
and  regulations  for  the  government  of  a quarantine  or 
health  of  the  city  as  from  time  to  time  they  may  deem 
necessary,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  persons  in  quar- 


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an  tine  and  all  officers  or  others  employed  by  the  city  in  and 
about  said  quarantine  to  carry  out  and  obey  the  same. 

§ 15.  The  board  of  health  shall  have  full  power  and  au- 
thority to  remove  and  abate  immediately,  summarily,  and 
without  process  of  law,  all  nuisances  of  whatever  descrip- 
tion or  character  that  may  be  found  within  the  city  of 
Joliet,  or  within  five  miles  of  the  limits  of  said  city  of  Jol- 
iet, and  which  said  board  of  health  deem  injurious  to  the 
sanitary  condition  of  the  city,  or  likely  to  promote,  cause, 
or  induce  pestilence  in  any  part  of  said  city. 

§ 16.  Whenever  it  shall  come  to  the  knowledge  of  the 
board  of  health,  that  any  trade,  manufactory,  occupation 
or  work,  is  kept,  conducted,  or  carried  on,  or  performed 
within  said  city,  and  that  the  same  is  likely  to  promote  or 
cause  disease,  or  endanger  the  health  of  the  city,  said  board 
shall  cause  a written  notice  to  be  served  on  the  person  or 
persons  carrying  on  or  conducting  the  same,  said  notice  to 
be  given  as  provided  for  in  Section  5 of  this  chapter  re- 
quiring the  person  or  persons  operating  or  conducting  the 
same,  to  discontinue  said  occupation  or  business  within  the 
time  specified  in  said  notice,  and  on  failure  of  such  person 
or  persons  to  discontinue  said  business  or  occupation,  with- 
in the  time  specified  in  said  notice,  they  shall  be  fined  in  a 
sum  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  two  hundred 
dollars  for  every  twelve  hours  said  business  is  operated  and 
conducted  after  the  service  of  said  notice,  and  the  expiration 
of  the  time  within  which  said  business  was  ordered  to  be 
discontinued,  shall  constitute  a separate  offense,  and  the 
court  before  whom  the  conviction  may  be  had,  as  a part  of 
its  judgment,  may  order  the  closing  up  of  said  manufactory 
or  place,  and  enforce  the  same  by  proper  process. 

§ 17,  No  privy  shall  be  cleaned,  nor  the  contents  there" 


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OEDINANC^S. 


of  removed  until  the  same  shall  be  thoroughly  disinfected, 
and  then  not  without  a written  permit  from  a member  of 
the  board  of  health,  which  permit  shall  state  when  and  in 
what  manner  the  contents  of  said  privy  shall  be  removed ; 
and  any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  Sec- 
tioiTi,  shall  be  fined  in  a sum  not  less  than  ten,  nor  more 
than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 18.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  health  to  cause 
all  persons  to  be  vaccinated  or  re-vaccinated  in  houses  in- 
fected with  small-pox ; any  person  or  persons  in  any  house 
infected  with  smallpox  refusing  to  be  vaccinated  or  re-vac- 
cinated, shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dol- 
lars nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 19.  If  any  person  shall  sell  or  expose  for  sale  in  any 
market  house  in  this  city,  or  other  place  in  said  city,  any 
emaciated,  putrid  or  tainted  meat  or  provisions,  which  for 
these  or  other  causes  the  board  of  health  may  deem  un 
wholesome,  such  person  or  persons  shall  be  fined  in  a sum 
not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  than  two  hundred  dollars 
for  each  and  every  offense ; and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
board  of  health  to  cause  such  meat  or  provisions  to  be  im- 
mediately seized  or  confiscated. 

§ 20.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to 
slaughter  within  the  limits  of  this  city,  or  five  miles  there- 
of, any  animal  that  is  maimed,  bruised,  afflicted  with  swel- 
lings, sores,  or  disease  of  any  kind  or  nature.  Fora  vio- 
lation of  any  of  the  provisions  ot  this  Section  the  person 
violating  the  same  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than 
ten  dollars  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars. 

§']21.  It  shall  be  imlawtul  for  any  dealer,  his  agent  or 
servant,  to  transport  any  fish,  veal,  pork,  mutton  or  meat 
of  any  kind  through  any  street,  alley,  or  public  places 


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within  the  limits  of  the  city  of  Joliet  between  the  hours  of 
•five  o’clock  in  the  forenoon  and  nine  o’clock  in  the  after- 
noon of  any  day,  without  entirely  covering  the  same  with  ‘ 
some  material  impervious  to  blood,  which  shall  altogether 
conceal  it  from  view.  This  chapter  shall  be  construed 
to  include  retail  dealers  in  the  delivery  of  small  quantities 
to  their  customers  and  others,  and  also  to  wholesale  dealers 
and  others,  in  the  transportation  of  slaughtered  animals  or 
parts  thei'eof,  from  the  slaughter  house  to  the  markets  and 
other  places  where  the  same  are  exposed  for  sale.  Any 
person  or  persons  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  Section  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than 
five,  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 22.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons  en- 
gaged in  gathering  bones  and  grease  from  the  markets  or 
other  place-!  in  the  city,  to  transport,  haul  or  carry  the 
same  through  the  streets,  alleys  or  public  places  therein, 
without  having  the  wagon,  cart  or  vehicle,  in  which  the 
same  is  so  carried  or  hauled,  tightly  or  securely  covered  to 
the  satisfaction  of  the  board  of  health,  or  some  officer  by 
them  duly  authorized.  Nor  shall  any  such  cart,  wagon  or 
vehicle  stand  in  or  upon  any  street,  alley  or  public  place 
at  any  time  longer  than  ‘shall  be  sufficient  to  transact  such 
business,  and  in  any  case  not  to  exceed  fifteen  minutes  at 
any  one  time.  For  a violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  section,  the  person  violating  the  same  shall  be  subject 
to  a fine  of  not  less  than  three  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars. 

§ 23.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to 
sell  or  expose  for  sale  within  the  city  of  Joliet,  milk  known 
as  “skimmed  milk,”  or  milk  produced  by  cows  fed  on  un- 
wholesome food,  such  as  still  or  brewers’  slop  or  malt,  or 
from  J unhealthy  cows,  without  at  the  time  of  such  sale 


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stating  the  character  of  the  milk,  and  any  person  violating 
the  provisions  of  this  section,  shall  be  fined  in  any  sum  not 
exceeding  twenty-five  dollars. 

§ 24.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  health : 

First.  To  have  and  exercise  a general  supervision  over 
the  sanitary  condition  of  the  city,  and  to  report  at  the 
meetings  of  said  board  all  nuisances  or  other  causes  likely 
to  be  detrimental  to  the  general  health  of  the  city. 

Second.  Upon  the  president  or  any  member  of  the 
board  of  health  being  informed  of  the  existence  of  any  con- 
tagious disease,  to  inquire  immediately  into  the  facts,  and 
report  the  same  to  the  board. 

Third.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  president  of  the  board 
of  health  to  see  that  all  orders  of  the  board  are  obeyed  by 
both  ofiicers  and  citizens. 

§ 25.  The  board  ot  health  is  hereby  invested  with,  and 
shall  have  and  exercise  concurrent  jurisdiction  with  the  city 
council  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  with  full  power  and  authority 
to  define  and  declare  what  shall  be  deemed  nuisances,  and 
to  authorize  the  summary  abatement  thereof. 

§ 26.  All  persons  are  hereby  required  to  obey  the  or- 
ders, precepts,  regulations  and  requirements  of  the  board 
of  health,  and  any  person  or  persons  failing^  retusing  or 
neglecting  so  to  do,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  city  of 
Joliet  a sum  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 27.  Every  person  practicing  physic  within  the  city  of 
Joliet  who  shall  have  a patient  laboring  under  any  pesti- 
lential or  malignant  disease  shall  forthwith  make  a report 
thereof  in  writing  to  the  clerk  of  said  board;  and  lor  neg- 
lecting so  to  do  shall  be  considered  guilty  of  a misdemean- 
or, and  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  city  of  Joliet  a sum 
not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 


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§ 28.  Said  board  ot  health  shall  examine  all  accounts 
for  expenses  incurred  by  its  authority,  and  such  as  are  ap- 
proved shall  be  certified  by  the  president,  and  attested  by 
the  clerk  thereof,  and  reported  monthly  at  each  regular 
meeting  of  the  city  council,  who  shall  cause  warrants  to 
be  drawn  on  the  city  treasurer  for  the  amount  due  each 
person. 

§ 29.  Said  board  shall  keep  in  proper  books,  full  and 
correct  accounts  of  all  its  expenses,  together  with  a full 
and  complete  record  of  its  proceedings. 

§ 30.  That  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  keep 
any  hogs  penned  up,  or  any  place  for  rendering  lard  or  any 
other  fat,  or  keep  any  smoke-house  within  the  following 
boundaries,  that  is  to  say,  south  of  Benton  street  and  north 
of  Marion  street,  west  of  the  Chicago,  Alton  & St.  Louis 
railroad,  and  east  of  the  Des  Plaines  river,  any  person  vio- 
lating this  section  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  ten  dollars, 
nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 31.  In  case  of  the  absence  of  the  president  of  the 
board  of  health,  a quorum  being  present,  the  board  shall 
elect  one  of  their  body  chairman  pro  tern,  the  person  so 
elected  shall  preside  at  such  meeting,  and  have  and  exer- 
cise. all  the  powers  of  the  president  of  the  board  of  health 
during  such  meeting. 


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CHAPTER  XXV, 

INTOXICATING  LIQUORS, 

Sect.  D Unlawful  to  sell  intoxicating^  liquors  without  license. 

2.  City  Council  authorized  to  grant  licenses. 

3.  No  license  to  he  granted  to  an  in  temperate  man  or  gambler  . 

4.  All  licenses  granted  shall  name  the  person  and  place,  where. 

5.  Licenses  shall  be  posted  X7p  in  the  room  where  liquors  are  sold. 

6.  In  certain  cases  Mayor  to  issue  proclamation. 

7.  Minors  prohibited  from  frequenting  tippling  houses. 

8.  Unlawful  to  permit  playing  of  musical  instruments,^  etc. 

Section  1.  That  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  in 
said  city,  excepting^  bottlers,  brewers,  distillers  and  regu- 
larly licensed  dram  shop  keepers,  to  directly  or  indirectly 
sell  or  give  away  intoxicating  liquors  in  any  quantity 
whatsoever,  and  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  in  said 
city,  excepting  regidarly  licensed  dram  shop  keepers,  to 
sell  intoxicating  liquors  in  quantities  less  than  one  gallon. 
This  chapter  shall  not  apply  to  the  sale  of  intoxicating 
liquor  sold  by  druggists  for  medicinal  purposes  only. 

Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  sec- 
tion, whether  principal,  agent,  barkeeper,  clerk  or  servant, 
shall  on  conviction  forfeit  and  pay  not  less  than  twenty- 
five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  or  be  im- 
prisoned in  the  bridewell  for  a term  not  exceeding  sixty 
da}^s  at  hard  labor,  or  both,  as  the  court  may  order. 

Regularly  licensed  dram  shop  keepers  shall  be  deemed  to 
be  those  persons  who  shall  have  procured  a license  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  provisions  of. this  chapter. 

§ 2.  The  city  council  is  hereby  authorized  to  grant  li- 
censes to  keep  dram  shops,  for  the  sale  of  spirituous,  vin- 
ous, fermented  and  intoxicating  liquors,  to  any  person  who 
shall  apply  therefor  to  the  city  council  in  writing,  upon 


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201 


such  person  executing  to  the  city  of  Joliet  a bond  with  at 
least  two  good  securities,  to  be  approved  by  the  city  coun- 
cil, in  the  penal  sum  ot  five  hundred  dollars,  conditioned 
that  the  party  so  licensed  shall  faithfully  observe  and  keep 
all  ordinances  heretofore  passed,  or  to  be  passed,  during 
the  period  of  such  license,  and  that  he  will  not  keep  open 
his  bar,  or  place  for  the  sale  of  such  liquors,  nor  sell,  give 
awa}%  or  in  any  manner  deal  in  by  himself,  servant,  or  any 
other  person,  any  spirituous,  vinous,  or  mixed,  fermented 
or  intoxicating  liquors  on  Sunday,  or  on  any  general  or 
municipal  election  day,  and  paying  for  such  license  for  the 
use  of  said  city  at  a rate  that  may  be  from  time  to  time 
established  per  annum.  On  compliance  with  the  foregoing 
requirements,  a license  shall  be  issued  to  the  applicant, 
which  shall  authorize  the  person  or  persons  therein  named 
to  sell,  barter,  give  away  and  deliver  wines  and  other 
liquors  in  the  place  designated  in  the  application,  Provided'. 
That  the  city  council  shall  not  grant  a license  to  any  per- 
son or  persons,  in  pursuance  of  this  chapter,  to  keep  a 
dramshop  for  the  sale  of  spirituous,  vinous,  fermented  or 
intoxicating  liquors,  of  any  kind,  unless  he,  she  or  they 
shall  first  give  a bond  in  the  penal  sum  of  three  thousand 
dollars,  payable  to  the  people  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  with 
at  least  two  good  and  sufficient  sureties,  freeholders  of 
the  county  of  AYill,  to  be  approved  by  the  city  council, 
conditioned  that  he  or  she  or  they  will  pay  to  all  persons 
all  damages  that  they  may  sustain,  either  in  person  or 
property,  or  means  of  support  by  reason  of  the  person  so 
obtaining  a license,  selling  or  giving  away  intoxicating 
liquors.  The  city  council  before  approving  such  bond, 
shall  cause  to  be  examined  under  oath,  any  person  offered 
aS  security  upon  such  bond,  and  may  require  him  or  her  to 


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subscribe  and  swear,  to  his  or  her  statement  in  regard  to 
his  or  her  pecuniary  liability  to  become  such  security. 

§ 3.  That  no  license  to  sell  spirituous  liquor  within  the 
city  of  Joliet  shall  hereafter  be  granted  to  any  person  who, 
from  habits  of  intemperance  or  gambling,  would  be  deemed 
incapable  of  keeping  an  orderly  house,  and  the  mayor  may 
refuse  to  issue  any  license  for  the  keeping  of  a dram  shop, 
until  the  council  shall  have  determined  the  fitness  of  the 
applicant,  and  whenever  any  dram  shop  shall  be  kept  in 
any  unruly  and  disorderly  manner,  it  shall  be  deemed  a 
nuisance,  and  the  keeper  thereof  shall  be  deemed  the  author 
of  such  a nuisacce,  and,  upon  conviction,  be  fined  in  a sum 
not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars,  and  be  subject  to  a revo- 
cation of  his  license  in  the  discretion  of  the  mayor  of  said 
city,  and  all  payments  made  on  said  license  shall  be  for- 
feited to  said  city  of  Joliet, 

§ 4.  All  licenses  granted  under  this  chapter  shall  set  forth 
the  name  of  the  person  licensed,  the  place  where  said  li- 
quors are  proposed  to  be  sold,  and  the  terms  and  condi- 
tions upon  which  sajd  license  is  granted,  as  required  to  be 
set  forth  in  the  bond  of  the  applicant, and  such  license  shall 
not  authorize  such  person  to  sell  any  of  said  liquors  at  any 
other  or  diflerent  time  or  place,  nor  upon  any  other  terms 
and  condition  than  such  as  are  stated  therein.  That  any 
person  who  may  obtain  a license,  or  who  shall  have  hereto- 
fore obtained  a license  from  said  city  to  sell  any  of  said 
liquors,  or  to  keep  a “dram  shop,”  shall  not  be  permitted, 
either  by  himself,  herselt  or  agent,  to  keep  such  house, 
shop,  “dram  shop,”  or  place  for  the  sale  of  said  liquors 
open  on  Sunday,  nor  sufler  any  person  to  frequent  the 
same  on  said  days,  or  drink  any  of  said  liquors  therein^ 
whether  they  pay  for  the  same  or  not;  nor  shall  any  such 


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house,  shop,  “dram  shop”  or  place  be  kept  open  during  the 
week  days  later  than  eleven  o’clock,  P.  M.,  nor  opened 
sooner  than  five  o’clock,  A.  M.,  on  any  such  day;  nor  shall 
any  such  licensed  person,  either  by  himself,  herself,  or 
agent,  sell  or  give  away  any  of  said  liquor  to  any  minor 
under  the  age  of  21  years,  nor  permit  any  minor  in  or 
about  his  premises,  unless  the  same  is  employed  as  a clerk 
by  such  person;  nor  sell  or  give  away,  either  by  himself, 
herself  or  agent,  any  of  said  liquors  to  any  person  who^is 
intoxicated,  or  to  any  person  who  is  in  the  habit  of  getting 
intoxicated,  or  who  is  an  habitual  drunkard,  or  permit 
any  person  who  is  intoxicated,  in  or  about  such  house, 
shop,  “dram  shop,”  or  place;  nor  permit  any  gambling  or 
riotous,  disorderly,  indecent  or  otfensive  conduct  of  any 
kind  whatever,  to  be  practiced  in  or  about  any  premises 
occupied  by  him  or  them  for  the  purpose  of  selling  of  any 
of  said  liquors,  and  any  person  convicted  of  any  of  the  of- 
fenses enumerated  in  this  section  shall  be  fined  for  each 
offense  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hun- 
dred dollars. 

§ 5.  All  persons  licensed  under  this  chapter  for  the 
sale  of  said  liquors  shall  immediately  cause  said  license  to 
be,  and  remain  posted,  upon  some  conspicuous  part  of  the 
room,  or  place  kept  or  used  for  the  sale  of  said  liquors; 
and  any  person  so  licensed,  who  shall  not  cause  said  license 
to  be  and  remain  posted  as  aforesaid;  or  who,  not  being  so 
licensed,  shall  cause  or  permit  any  document  or  paper  pur- 
porting to  be  a license,  to  be,  or  remain  posted,  as  afore- 
said, shall,  on  conviction,  be  fined  in  a sum  not  exceeding 
one  hundred  dollars,  nor  less  than  three  dollars. 

§ 6.  In  all  cases  where,  in  the  opinion  of  the  mayor  or 
city  council,  the  public  peace  is  likely  to  be  endangered 


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by  the  keeping  open  of  licensed  “dram  shops,”  or  houses 
for  the  sale  of  any  of  said  liquors,  it  shall  be  lawful  for 
the  mayor  to  issue  his  proclamation,  under  the  seal  of  the 
city,  commanding  and  enjoining  all  persons  licensed  by 
said  city  to  sell  any  of  said  liquors,  and  their  servants  and 
agents,  to  close  their  shops  and  places  of  business  for  such 
time  as  the  mayor  or  city  council  shall  deem  necessary ; 
and  neither  to  sell,  give  away,  or  sufler  to  be  drank,  any 
of  said  liquors  in  or  about  their  premises  during  the  time 
mentioned  in  said  proclamation;  and  if  any  person  shall 
disobey  said  proclamation  by  keeping  open  his  shop,  “dram 
shop,”  or  place  of  business,  or  by  selling,  giving  away,  or 
suffering  to  be  drank,  on  or  about  his  premises  any  of  said 
liquors,  he  shall,  upon  conviction,  forfeit  and  pay  the  sum 
of  one  hundred  dollars,  and  the  license  of  such  party  so 
convicted  may  be  revoked  by  the  mayor  of  said  city. 

§ 7.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  persons  under  the  age 
of  twenty-one  years,  to  be  in  or  about  or  to  frequent  any 
tippling  house,  billiard  hall,  bowling'  alley,  or  place  where 
intoxicating  liquors  are  sold,  without  first  having  the 
written  consent  of  their  parents  or  guardians,  clearjy  spec- 
ifying the  place  or  places,  and  the  time  when  such  minor 
may  go  to  or  frequent  or  be  in  such  tippling  house,  billiard 
hall,  bowling  alley,  or  place  where  intoxicating  liquors 
are  sold,  or  unless  such  minor  be  accompanied  by  such  pa- 
rent or  guardian,  and  that  for  each  violation  of  this  chapter 
said  minor  shall  be  fined  in  any  sum  not  exceeding  twenty- 
five  dollars,  and  for  such  a failure  to  pay  such  fine  the  per- 
son so  convicted  shall  be  committed  to  the  bridewell. 

§ 8.  That  Tt  shall  be  unlawful  for  the  keeper  of  any 
dram  shop,  saloon,  barroom,  room  or  cellar,  kept  for  the 
sale  of  spirituous,  vinouSj,  malt  or  fermented  liquors,  to 


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play  or  permit  to  be  played  any  musical  instrument,  or  to 
sing,  or  permit  to  be  sung,  any  song  or  other  piece  of  mu- 
sic, or  to  permit  dancing  of  any  description  in  such  “dram 
shop,”  saloon,  barroom,  room,  or  cellar,  where  such  liquor 
is  sold,  or  in  any  room,  or  anteroom,  yard,  place  or  prem- 
ises adjoining;  or  run  in  connection  with  such  “dram  shop,” 
saloon,  barroom,  room  or  cellar,  and  used  by  the  patrons 
thereof  as  a sitting  room,  or  place  in  which  such  liquor  is 
drunk. 


CHAPTER  XXVI. 

LICENSES. 

Sec.  1.  Licenses. 

2.  Not  assignable. 

3.  For  wliat  time  granted,  how  issued. 

Section  1.  That  all  licenses  which  may  be  issued  under 
any  ordinance  of  the  city  council,  shall  be  subject  to  the 
ordinances  and  regulations,  which  may  be  in  force  at  the 
time  of  the  issuing  thereof,  or  which  may  be  subsequently 
made  by  the  city  council;  and  if  any  person  so  licensed 
shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  thereof,  he  shall  be  liable 
to  be  proceeded  against,  for  any  fine  or  penalty  imposed 
thereby,  and  his  license  shall  be  subject  to  be  revoked  in. 
the  discretion  of  the  mayor  or  city  council. 

§ 2.  No  license  granted  under  any  ordinance  shall  be 
assignable  or  transferable,  without  permission  of  the  city 
council,  to  be  granted  by  a majority  of  all  the  aldermen 
elected;  nor  shall  any  such  license  authorize  any  person  to 
do  business  or  act  under  it,  but  the  person  named  therein, 
unless  such  ordinance  shall  otherwise  provide. 


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§ 3.  No  license  shall  be  granted  for  a longer  period  than 
one  year,  and  all  licenses  shall  be  signed  by  the  mayor,  and 
countersigned  by  the  city  clerk,  under  the  corporate  seal. 
And  in  all  cases  where  it  is  not  otherwise  expressly  pro- 
vided, the  mayor  shall  have  power  to  hear  applications  and 
grant  license  upon  the  terms  specified  by  the  ordinances  of 
the  city. 


CHAPTEE  XXVII. 

MARKETS. 

Sec.  1.  Butchers  subject  to  this  chapter  j license;  amount  paid  for;  proviso', 

2.  Sale  of  fresh  meat  to  be  licensed;  penalty. 

3.  Sale  of  unwholesome  meat  prohibited;  penalty . 

4.  Meats  to  be  weighed;  penalty. 

5.  Stalls  to  be  kept  neat;  filth  not  to  be  deposited  iii  streets. 

6.  Duties  of  maj^or  and  health  officers. 

7.  Butchers  shall  not  slaughter  cattle,  etc,,  in  city  limits,  unless  by  permit 

from  council. 

8.  Duties  of  mayor  and  health  officers  when  combination  exists  to  raise 

price  of  meat. 

9.  When  licenses  expire. 

10.  Word  butcher  defined. 

Section  1.  That  the  mayor  thereof  shall,  from  time  to 
time,  issue  licenses  under  his  hand  and  seal  of  the  city,  to 
as  many  and  such  persons  as  the  city  council  shall  direct, 
to  exercise  and  carry  dii  the  business  of  butchers  in  such- 
place  as  may  be  designated  in  such  license,  and  not  else- 
where, and  shall  be  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  chapter; 
Provided,  however,  that  before  the  mayor  shall  issue  a li- 
cense as  aforesaid,  the  person  applying  for  the  same  shall 
pay  into  the  city  treasury  a sum  fixed  by  the  council  there- 
for; Provided,  further,  that  any  person  licensed  as  a 
butcher  as  aforesaid,  upon  the  payment  of  a further  sum, 
fixed  by  the  council,  into  the  city  trea&ury,  shall  be  li- 


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censed  to  own  and  run  a delivery  wagon  or  cart  for  the  ac- 
commodation of  his  customers,  and  also  peddle  meat 
through  the  city. 

§ 2.  No  person  shall,  by  himself,  agent  or  servant,  sell 
or  cut  in  pieces,  for  the  purpose  of  selling,  any  fresh  meat, 
(excepting  fresh  venison,  poultry,  or  wild  game),  in  any 
fjuantity  in  the  said  city,  without  first  having  obtained  a 
license  as  heretofore  provided,  nor  at  any  other  place  than 
the  aforesaid  market  house  or  stall,  under  a penalty  of  ten 
dollars  for  each  offense;  Provided,  however,  that  nothing 
herein  stated  shall  prohibit  any  person  from  selling  beef 
or  other  fresh  meat  by  the  qu  irter,  or  aii}^  greater  quan- 
tity at  any  time  or  place  in  the  city,  the  same  being  the 
produce  of  their  own  farm  or  raising. 

§ 3.  If  any  person  shall  expose  for  sale  in  any  market 
house,  or  elsewhere  in  said  city,  any  emaciated,  tainted, 
diseased  or  putrid  meat  or  provisions,  which  from  these  or 
other  causes,  may  become  unwholesome,  such  person  shall 
forfeit  the  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  offense,  and  t he 
unwholesome  meat  or  other  provisions  so  exposed  for  sale 
shall,  without  delay,  upon  view  of  the  mayor  or  health  of- 
ficers, be  seized  and  destroyed. 

§ 4.  All  meats  sold  at  the  market  or  licensed  stalls,  ex- 
cepting shanks,  heads,  and  plucks,  poultry  or  wild  game, 
shall  be  previously  weighed  in  a scale  by  weights  or  a 
beam,  that  are  correct,  and  in  case  any  fraud  shall  be  com- 
mitted in  the  weight  of  any  meat,  and  in  case  any  meat, 
excepting  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  sold  without  being 
weighed,  as  herein  directed,  the- person  selling  the  same 
shall  forfeit  the  sum  of  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 5.  Every  butcher  or  other  person  shall  keep  his  mar- 
ket, market  cellar,  or  stall  in  the  city,  neat  and  free  from 


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filth  of  all  kinds,  and  the  mayor  or  health  officers  shall  at 
all  times  have  free  access  thereto,  under  the  penalty  of  five 
dollars,  to  be  paid  by  the  butcher  or  other  person  who 
shall  refuse  or  prevent  such  access.  No  butcher  or  other 
person  shall  sweep  or  deposit  any  dirt,  or  filth  of  any  de- 
scription in,  or  upon,  the  public  passage  way  or  ways,  or 
streets  adjacent  to  said  markets  respectively;  any  person 
violating  the  provisions  hereof  shall,  upon  conviction,  be 
subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars,  nor  more  than 
fifty  dollars. 

§ 6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  mayor  and  health  officers 
on  complaint  being  made  to  them,  to  examine  the  weights, 
and  all  articles  in  the  market  of  which  complaint  shall  be 
made,  or  suspected  to  be  unwholesome,  or  blown,  or  stale, 
plaited,  raised  or  stuffed  meat,  or  measly  pork,  or  flesh  of 
animals  dead  by  accident  or  disease,  or  known  or  suspected 
to  be  diseased  at  the  killing  of  the  same,  and  no  person 
shall  hinder,  obstruct  or  molest  any  officer  in  the  perform- 
ance of  the  duties  hereby  enjoined,  under  a penalty  of  fifty 
dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 7.  No  butcher  shall  slaughter,  or  cause  to  be  slaugh- 
tered, or  dress  any  cattle,  calves,  sheep  or  swine,  within 
the  limits  of  this  city;  or  erect,  construct,  fit  up  or  use  any 
building  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  without  a permit  from 
the  city  council  of  said  city,  under  a fine  of  of  not  less  than 
fifty  dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  every 
offense,  and  a like  fine  to  the  owner  or  occupant  for  every 
day  such  building  may  be  used  for  any  of  the  purposes 
above  mentioned. 

§ 8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  mayor  and  health  officers 
when  it  shall  come  to  their  knowledge  that  any  person  or 


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persons  so  licensed  are  engaged  in  any  combination  to 
raise  the  price  of  meat,  or  who  shall  be  guilt}^  of  forestall- 
ing thereon,  to  report  the  same  to  the  city  council  at  their 
next  meeting ; and  if  the  same  shall  thus  appear,  the  city 
council  may,  in  their  discretion,  declare  the  license  forfeited 
and  revoke  the  same. 

§ 9.  A ll  licenses  so  issued  shall  .expire  and  cease  on  the 
first  day  of  July  after  the  granting  thereof,  unless  sooner 
revoked  by  the  city  council,  and  shall  be  renewable  by  the 
said  mayor,  under  the  direction  of  the  city  council,  on  ap- 
plication. 

§ 10.  The  word  “butcher,”  in  the  sense  used  in  this 
chapter,  is  hereby  defined  to  mean  a vendor  of  meats. 


CHAPTER  XXVIII. 

MISDEMEANORS. 

ARTICLE  1.  OFFENSES  AGAINST  PUBLIC  MORALS  AND  DECENCY. 


Sec  1.  Penalty  for  being  intoxicated. 

2.  Penalty  for  swimming  and  bathing. 

3.  Stud  horses  and  bulls,  penalty  for  exhibiting. 

4.  Houses  of  ill  fame,  penalty  for  keeping. 

5.  Indecent*exposure,  penalty  for. 

6 Animals,  penalty  for  beating,  etc. 

7.  Gaming  prohibited. 

8.  Construction  of  this  chapter. 

9.  Disorderly  and  gaming  houses. 

10.  Gaming,  penalty  for  gambling. 

11.  Disorderly  houses,  officers  may  enter. 

12.  Inmates  prostitution  or  gaming  houses. 

13.  Keepers  of  gaming  rooms  not  to  allow  young  persons  therein. 

14.  Bitches,  penalty  for  running  at  large. 

15.  Unlawful  to  receive  from  minors. 

Section  1.  That  if  any  person  shall  be  found  in  a state  of 
intoxication  in  any  highway,  thoroughfare,  or  other  public 
place  in  this  city,  or  shall  solicit  alms  from  any  person. 


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without  written  permission  from  the  mayor,  he  shall  be 
subject  to  commitment  for  examination,  and  fined  in  a sum 
not  exceeding  twenty-five  dollars. 

§.  2.  No  person  shall  swim  or  bathe  in  the  river,  canal, 
or  creeks,  within  the  city  limits,  between  sunrise  and  one 
hour  after  sunset;  nor  elsewhere  in  said  city,  between  the 
hours  aforesaid,  to  the  annoyance  of  any  family.  Any  vio- 
lation  hereof  shall  subject  the  offender  to  a fine  of  not  less 
than  two  dollars,  and  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars. 

§ 3.  No  person  or  persons  shall  indecently  exhibit  any 
stud  horse,  jack  or  bull,  or  let  such  horse  or  jack  to  any 
mare,  mares  or  jennie,  or  any  bull  to  any  cow  or  cows, 
within  the  limits  of  the  city,  unless  in  some  inclosed  place 
out  of  public  view,  under  a penalty  of  not  less  than  five, 
nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 4.  If  any  person  shall  be  guilty  of  keeping  or  main- 
taining, or  shall  be  an  inmate  of,  or  in  any  way  connected 
with,  or  in  anyway  contribute  to  the  support  of  any  disor- 
derly house,  or  house  of  ill-fame,  or  place  for  the  practice 
of  fornication;  knowingly  own,  or  be  interested  as  .propri- 
etor or  landlord  of  any  such  house  shall,  on  conviction,  be 
fined  in  a sum  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars,  and  in 
the  further  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars  for  every  twenty- 
four  hours  the  said  house  shall  be  continued  after  the  first 
conviction,  or  after  any  such  person  shall  be  ordered  by  any 
member  of  the  city  council,  the  chief  of  police  or  any  po- 
liceman, or  any  fireman,  to  suppress,  restrain  or  discon- 
tinue the  same. 

§ 5.  If  any  person  shall  appear  in  a public  place  in  a 
state  of  nudity,  or  dress  not  belonging  to  his  or  her  sex,  or 
in  an  indecent  or  lewd  dress;  or  shall  make  any  indecent 
exposure  of  his  or  her  person,  or  be  guilty  of  any  lewd  or 


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indecent  act  or  behavior,  or  shall  use  any  insulting  or  ob- 
scene language,  or  shall  exhibit,  sell  or  oiler  to  sell,  any  in- 
decent or  lewd  book,  picture,  or  other  thing,  or  shall  ex- 
hibit  or  perform  any  indecent,  immoral  or  lewd  play,  or 
representation,  he  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than 
three  dollars,  nor  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 6.  Whoever  shall  be  guilty  of  cruelty  to  any  animal 
in  any  of  the  ways  mentioned  in  this  section,  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  a fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  and  not  to  exceed 
twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense,  viz : 

First.  By  over-loading,  over-driving,  over-Avorking, 
cruelly  beating,  torturing,  tormenting,  mutilating,  or  cru- 
elly killing  any  animal,  or  causing  or  knoAvingly  alloAving 
the  same  to  be  done. 

Second.  By  cruelly  working  any  old,  maimed,  infirm, 
sick  or  disabled  animal  Avhich  is  in  unfit  condition  for  work, 
or  causing  or  knowingly  alloAving  the  same  to  be  done. 

Third.  By  unnecessarily  failing  to  provide  any  animal 
in  his  charge  or  custody  as  owner  or  otherwise,  Avith  proper 
food,  drink  and  shelter,  and  in  case  of  a conviction  under 
this  paragraph  the  court  may,  in  addition  to  the  fine,  assess 
a reasonable  charofe  aofainst  the  defendant  for  food,  care 
and  shelter  of  said  animal,  to  be  paid  to  the  person  provid- 
ing said  food,  drink,  shelter  and  care. 

Fourth.  By  conveying  or  driving  or  keeping,  or  causing 
to  be  carried  or  driven  or  kept,  any  animal  in  an  unneces- 
sarily cruel  manner. 

§ 7.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to 
keep,  have,  or  permit  to  be  used  in  any  building  or  place 
within  the  limits  of  this  city,  and  occupied  or  controlled 
by  such  persons,  any  E.  O.  table,  faro  bank,  shuffle  board. 


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bagatelle,  playing  cards,  or  any  other  'instrument,  device 
or  thing  used  for  gambling,  wherein,  or  with  which  money, 
liquor,  or  other  articles  shall  in  any  manner  be  played  for. 

§ 8.  This  chapter  shall  be  understood  to  apply,  in  a 
special  manner,  to  any  device  for  gambling,  or  playing 
any  games  of  chance,  when  money,  or  anything  else  shall 
be  played  for,  on  any  street,  or  other  place  in  doors,  or 
out,  any  building  or  tent,  near  or  anywhere  about  any  can- 
vass or  tent  erected  for  the  purpose  of  exhibiting  any  cir- 
cus, show,  caravan  of  animals,  or  any  other  public  exhibi- 
tion, which  shall  be  calculated  to  attract  a crowd  of  peo- 
ple; and  if  any  person  or  persons  shall  be  convicted  of  vio- 
lating either  sections  seven  or  eight  of  this  chapter,  he  or 
they  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars 
for  each  and  every  offense,  and  that  all  devices  above  de- 
scribed shall  be  destroyed  by  the  chief  of  police. 

§ 9.  If  any  person  or  persons  shall  keep  a disorderly  or 
gaming  house,  such  person  or  persons  shall,  for  each  and 
every  offense,  forfeit  and  pay  a penalty  of  twenty-five  dol- 
lars for  every  forty-eight  hours  during  which  such  person 
or  persons  shall  continue  to  keep  the  same  after  the  first 
conviction  of  any  violation  of  this  section. 

§ 10.  If  any  person  or  persons  shall  play  at  cards,  or  at 
any  game,  or  with  any  instrument  or  thing  used  for  gam- 
bling, within  said  city,  wherein,  or  with  which  money, 
liquor,  or  any  article  of  value  shall  be  played  for,  each  and 
every  person  shall,  upon  conviction,  be  fined  in  any  sum 
not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  and  not  less  than  ten 
dollars. 

§ 11.  If  the  owner  or  keeper  of,  or  any  person  within 
any  gambling  house,  or  room,  any  disorderly  house,  or  any 
house  of  ill-fame,  within  this  city,  shall  refuse  to  permit 


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the  mayor,  any  alderman,  the  chief  of  police,  or  any  police- 
man to  enter  the  same,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  mayor,  or 
any  alderman  to  enter,  or  cause  the  same  to  be  entered  by 
force,  by  breaking  the  doors  or  otherwise,  and  to  arrest, 
with  or  without  warrant,  all  suspicious  persons  found 
therein;  any  person  obstructing  or  resisting  the  mayor, 
aldermen,  chief  of  police,  or  any  policeman  in  the  perform- 
ance of  any  act  authorized  by  this  section,  shall  be  fined  in 
a sum  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 12.  That  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  visit 
houses  of  prostitution  or  gaming  houses  or  places  wherein 
games  are  played  for  money  or  other  valuable  thing, 
whether  such  person  shall  play  at  any  game  himself  or  be  a 
mere  looker  on,  knowing  or  having  reason  to  know  the 
place  to  be  a house  of  prostitution  or  a gambling  house, 
and  any  person  found  in  any  such  house  or  place  shall  upon 
conviction,  be  fined  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more 
than  fifty  dollars. 

§ 13.  Any  person  who  shall  keep  a billiard  room,  or 
ball  alley ,or  room  for  any  other  gaming  device,  open  to  the 
public,  within  the  city  of  Joliet,  and  shall  entice  or  suffer 
any  minor  or  person  under  the  age  of  twenty-one  years, 
to  play  at  any  game  of  chance,  shall  be  fined  fifty  dollars 
and  costs  for  such  offense.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall 
be  construed  as  authorizing  any  such  room  to  be  kept  open 
for  the  purpose  of  permitting  persons  of  adult  age  to  play 
at  any  games  as  above  mentioned. 

§ 14.  If  any  bitch  shall  be  found  running  at  large  while 
in  heat,  the  owner  thereof  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not 
less  than  one  dollar,  nor  exceeding  ten  dollars. 

§ 15.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  to  purchase 
or  receive  from  minors,  without  the  written  consent  of 


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their  parents  or  guardians,  any  article  or  property  what- 
ever, and  any  person  violating  this  section  shall  forfeit  and 
pay  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars 
for  every  offense. 


AKTICLE  II.  OFFENSES  AFFECTING  THE  PUBLIC  SAFETY. 

Sec  1.  Penalty  for  renting  buildings  for  houses  of  ill-fame. 

2.  Fire  arms  not  to  be  used  in  the  city, 

3.  Fast  driving  prohibited . 

4.  Poison  not  to  be  sold  unless  labeled . 

5.  Scaffolds  to  be  properly  erected. 

6.  Kites,  penalty  for  flying  in  streets,  etc. 

7.  Stones,  penalty  for  throwing. 

8.  Horses  to  be  hitched. 

9.  Draymen,  etc  , to  fasten  wheel  with  chain. 

10.  Horses,  penalty  for  frightening. 

11.  Breaking  or  obstructing  public  lamps,  penalty. 

12.  Persons  meeting  in  vehicles  to  turn  to  the  right. 

13.  Cellar  doors  to  be  kept  closed . 

14.  Obstructions  in  slough  drain, 

15.  Unlawful  to  wash  buggies,  etc.,  at  public  wells,  penalty. 

16.  Where  omnibuses  prohibited  from  stopping. 

17.  Stand  for  drays  and  other  vehicles. 

18.  Unlawful  to  mar  or  injure  fences,  posts,  etc. 

Section  1.  That  if  any  person,  being  the  owner  of,  or 
agent  for  any  building'  situated  in  the  city  of  Joliet,  shall 
let  or  lease  any  such  building  in  whole  or  in  part,  to  any 
person  or  persons,  to  be  used  or  occupied  as  a house  of  ill- 
fame,  or  place  for  the  practice  of  fornication,  or  shall  let 
or  rent  any  such  building  to  ahy  person  or  persons  while 
knowing  or  suspecting  at  the  time  of  such  letting  or  rent- 
ing, that  said  building  would  be  used  as  a house  of  ill-fame 
or  place  for  the  practice  of  fornication,  or  shall  permit  any 
person  or  persons  to  occupy  such  building,  knowing  or 
suspecting  that  such  building  is,  or  will  be  used  by  such 
person  or  persons  as  a house  of  ill-fame,  or  place  for  the 
practice  of  fornication,  shall,  on  conviction,  be  fined  in  a 


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sum  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred 
dollars. 

§ 2.  That  no  person  shall  fire  or  discharge  any  common 
gun,  fowling  piece,  pistol  or  fire  arms  of  any  description, 
or  fire,  explode,  or  set  off  any  squib,  cracker,  or  other 
thing  containing  powder,  or  other  combustible  or  explo- 
sive material  within  the  limits  of  the  city,  without  per- 
mission from  the  city  council,  or  written  permission  from 
the  mayor,  which  permission  shall  limit  the  time  of  such 
firing,  and  shall  be  subject  to  be  revoked  by  the  mayor  or 
city  council  at  any  time  after  it  has  been  granted.  Any 
violation  hereof  shall  subject  the  party  offending  to  a fine 
of  not  less  than  two  dollars  nor  exceeding  ten  dollars. 

§ 3.  No  person  shall  immoderately  ride  or  drive  any 
horse  in  any  avenue,  street  alley  or  lane  within  the  limits 
of  the  city,  under  a penalty  of  not  less  than  two  dollars, 
nor  more  than  ten  dollars,  and  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty’ 
of  every  oflScer,  and  it  shall  be  lawful  for  any  citizen  to 
stop  any  person  who  may  be  immoderately  riding  or  driv- 
ing as  aforesaid. 

§ 4.  No  person  shall  vend,  give  or  deliver  within  this 
city,  any  deadly  poison,  knowing  the  same  to  be  such, 
without  marking  the  same  in  legible  characters  “poison,” 
under  a penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 5.  All  scaffolds  erected  in  this  city  for  use  in  the  erec- 
tion of  buildings  of  stone,  brick  or  other  materials,  shall 
be  well  and  safely  supported,  and  of  sufficient  width  and 
properly  secured,  so  as  to  insure  the  safety  of  persons 
walking  thereon,  or  passing  under  or  by  the  same,  against 
the  tailing  thereof,  or  of  such  materials  as  may  be  used, 
placed  or  deposited  thereon.  Any  scaffold  which  may  be 
otherwise  erected,  shall  be  deemed  a nuisance.  And  any 


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person  who  shall  erect,  use  or  cause  to  be  erected  or  used, 
any  scaffold  contrary  to  the  provisions  hereof,  shall  be 
subject  to  a fine  ol  not  less  than  five  dollars  and  not  exceed- 
ing one  hundred  dollars,  and  to  a like  fine  for  every  day 
the  same  same  shall  remain  after  notice  to  remove. 

§ 6.  No  person  shall  raise  or  fly  a kite  in  any  part  of 
any  street,  avenue  or  lace  of  this  city,  devoted  to  busi- 
ness, or  in  which  there  may  be  much  transacting,  under  a 
penalty  of  one  dollar  tor  each  offense. 

§ 7.  No  person  shall  throw  or  cast  any  stone  or  any 
other  missle  upon  or  at  any  building,  tree,  or  any  other 
public  or  private  property,  or  upon  or  at  any  person  or 
persons  in  any  street,  avenue,  alley,  public  place  or  in 
any  inclosed  or  uninclosed  ground  in  this  city,  or  aid  or 
abet  in  the  same,  under  a fine  for  each  offense,  of  not  less 
than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars. 

§ 8.  No  person  shall  leave  any  horse,  horses  or  other 
animals  attached  to  any  carriage,  vagon,  cart,  sleigh,  sled 
or  other  vehicle,  in  any  of  the  streets,  avenues,  alleys  or 
lanes  of  this  city,  without  securely  fastening  such  horse, 
horses  or  other  animals,  under  a penalty  for  each  offense, 
of  not  less  than  two  dollars  nor  more  than  ten  dollars. 

§ 9.  Every  truckman,  drayman  or  cartman  shall  have 
a strong  chain  attached  to  the  body  of  his  truck,  dray  or 
cart,  which  shall  be  made  fast  to  one  of  the  wheels  when- 
ever the  horse  in  such  truck,  dray  or  cart  shall  be  left 
standing  alone,  in  any  of  the  streets,  avenues,  alleys  or 
lanes  of  this  city,  under  a penalty  of  two  dollars  for  each 
offense. 

§ 10.  Any  person  who  shall  use  any  sport  or  exercise 
likely  to  scare  horses,  injure  passengers  or  embarrass  the 


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passage  of  vehicles,  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  not  exceed- 
ing ten  dollars. 

O 

§11.  Any  person  breaking, 'mutilating  or  obstructing 
any  of  the  public  lamps,  or  who  shall  break,  misplace  or 
carry  away  any  of  the  street  signs  now  or  hereafter  to  be 
placed  on  any  of  the  public  lamps  in  the  city  of  Joliet, 
shall  be  liable  to  a fine  of  five  dollars. 

§ 12.  In  all  cases  of  persons  meeting  each  other  in 
vehicles,  in  any  highway  or  thoroughfare  or  upon  or  near 
any  bridge,  each  person  so  meeting,  shall.in  all  cases  turn 
oft*  and  go  to  the  right  side;  whoever  shall  violate  this 
section  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  two  dol- 
lars nor  exceeding  fifty  dollars ; he  shall  likewise  be  sub- 
ject to  the  payment  of  all  damages  which  may  arise  from 
collision,  unless  he  shall  be  able  to  prove  that  the  col- 
lision was  wholly  owing  to  the  fault  or  misconduct  of  the 
other  party. 

§ 13.  Any  person  who  shall  keep  or  leave  open  any 
cellar  door,  or  trap  door,  or  the  grating  of  any  vault  on 
any  highway  or  sidewalk,  or  suft*er  the  same  to  be  left  or 
kept  open;  or  whoever  shall  make,  keep  or  maintain  any 
uncovered  opening  in  any  sidewalk  or  passageway,  or  who 
shall  suffer  any  sidewalk  in  front  of  his  premises  to  become 
or  continue  so  broken  as  to  endanger  life  or  limb,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a nuisance  and  subject  to  a fine  of  not 
less  than  five  dollars  in  every  case. 

§ 14.  If  any  person  or  persons  shall  place  any  obstruc- 
tion or  deposit  any  dirt,  straw,  filth,  old  lumber  or  any 
article  or  thing  whatever  in  the  drain  running  through  the 
city  of  Joliet  on  the  east  side  of  the  Des  Plaines  river,  and 
commonly  known  as  the  slough  di’ain,  he,  she  or  they-,  so 


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ofFeii cling-  shall  be  liable  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  five  dol- 
lars nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 15.  That  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  wash 
buggies,  carriages  or  vehicles  of  any  description,  whatever, 
or  to  wash  animals  of  any  kind,  at  any  of  the  public  wells, 
hydrants,  or  watering  troughs  in  the  city  of  Joliet;  any 
person  or  persons  violating  the  provisions  of  this  section 
shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  forfeit  and  pay  a fine  of  not 
less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars  for 
each  offense. 

§ 16.  It  shall *be  unlawful  tor  omnibus  and  hack  drivers 
to  stop  their  vehicles  on  Jefferson  street  at  the  Chicago  and 
Alton  railroad  depot  at  any  time.  Any  person  or  persons 
violating  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  fined  in  a 
sum  not  exceeding  five  dollars  for  each  and  every  off*ense. 

§ 17.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  owner  or  driver  of 
any  dray,  truck,  baggage,  express,  or  other  vehicle,  to  al- 
low the  same,  owned  or  driven  by  them,  to  stan«l  while 
waiting  for  customers,  on  any  street  or  alley,  within  the 
limits  of  the  city,  except  upon  the  east  side  of  Ottawa 
street,  and  between  Jefferson  and  Washington  streets,  and 
except  two  hundred  feet  north  side  of  W^ashington  street, 
east  of  Collins  street;  and  for  any  violation  of  this  section 
the  party  so  offending,  shall,  on  conviction,  be  liable  to  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars. 

§ 18,  No  person  shall  wantonly  mar,  injure,  deface  or 
destroy  any  fence,  guide  post,  sign  board  or  awning  in  any 
street  or  public  place  in  the  city,  under  a penalty  of  not 
less  than  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 


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ARTICLE  III.  OFFENSES  EFFECTING  THE  PUBLIC  PEACE. 

Sec  1.  All  cases  of  assault. 

2 Disturbance  of  the  peace  by  various  means. 

3.  Disorderly  conduct,  fighting,  etc.  . 

4.  Penalty  for  urging  dogs  to  fight. 

5.  Religious  worship,  penalty  for  disturbing. 

6.  Ringing  of  bells,  etc.,  penalty  for. 

7.  Disorderly  houses,  etc.,  penalty  for  keeping. 

8.  Obstructing  street  corner  or  public  places,  penalty. 

9.  Interfering  with  fire  or  police  alarm,  penalty. 

10.  Unlawful  to  have  in  possession  burglar  nippers,  etc. 

11.  Police,  special  duty  of,  power  to  arrest  on  the  Sabbath. 

Section  1,  That  in  all  cases  of  assault,  and  assault  and 
battery  that  shall  be  committed  within  the  limits  of  the 
city  of  Joliet,  may  be  brought  before  the  police  magistrate 
of  the  city,  and  on  conviction  thereof,  the  person  guilty 
may  be  fined  not  less  than  three  dollars,  or  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars,  in  the  discretion  of  the  court  having  juris- 
diction. 

§ 2.  That  it  shall  not  be  lawful  lor  any  person  or  per- 
sons within  the  city  of  Joliet  to  disturb  the  peace  of  any 
street,  lane,  avenue,  alley,  neighborhood,  family  or  persons 
by  loud  or  unusual  noises,  or  by  blowing  of  trumpets, 
horns,  or  other  instruments,  or  by  beating  of  drums,  tam- 
bourines, kettles,  pans,  or  other  sounding  vessels  or  imple- 
ments, or  by  loud  or  boisterous  laughing,  or  by  singing, 
bellowing,  whooping,  screaming,  hallooing,  scolding,  tra- 
ducing, threatening,  quarrelling,  swearing,  cursing,  chal- 
lenging to  fight,  uttering  obscene  language  or  conversation, 
or  by  creating  false  alarms,as  by  crying  “fire,’’^  or  “watch,” 
nor  shall  any  person  or  persons  disturb  the  peace  as  afore- 
said by  any  other  device  or  means  whatever;  and  every 
person  convicted  of  any  of  the  offenses  enumerated  in  this 
section,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a sum  not  less  than  five  dol- 


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lars,  nor  more  .than  one  hundred  dollars  for  every  offense. 
And  any  person  who  shall  make,  aid,  countenance  or  as- 
sist in  making  any  riot,  disturbance,  breach  of  peace,  or 
diversion  in  the  streets,  or  elsewhere  within  said  city;  and 
all  persons  who  shall  collect  in  crowds  for  an  unlawful 
purpose,  or  for  any  purpose  to  the  annoyance  or  disturb- 
ance of  citizens  or  travelers,  shall  be  severally  subject  to  a 
fine  ot  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  twenty-five 
dollars. 

§ 3.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  or  persons 
within  said  city  to  conduct  himself  or  themselves  in  a tu- 
multuous, riotous,  indecent,  disorderly  or  offensive  man- 
ner ; nor  shall  it  be  lawful  for  any  person  or  persons  with- 
in said  city  to  fight  by  agreement  or  mutual  consent,  nor 
to  strike,  fight  or  assault  any  other  person  or  persons,  nor 
to  commit  an  assault  and  battery  upon  the  person  of  an- 
other; nor  shall  it  be  lawful  for  any  person  to  aid,  or  abet, 
or  assist,  or  encourage  any  person  to  fight,  or  to  commit 
an  assault  or  assault  and  battery  upon  the  person  of  an- 
other; and  every  person  convicted  of  any  of  the  offenses 
enumerated  in  this  section  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a sum  of 
not  less  than  three,  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for 
every  offense. 

§ 4.  If  any  person  shall  be  present  at  any  dog  fight, 
when  the  animals  meet  accidentally,  and  shall,  by  any  ges- 
ture or  words  of  encouragement,  urge  the  dogs  to  fight; 
or  if  any  persons  or  persons  shall,  by  agreement,  set  dogs 
to  fighting  within  the  limits  of  this  city,  or  shall  encouf- 
age  them  after  they  have  commenced  lighting,  he  or  they 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a misdemeanor,  and  upon  convic- 
tion thereof  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a sum  of  not  less  than  two 
dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred,  for  eveiy  offense;  and 


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it  is  hereb}'  made  the  duty  of  the  mayor,  chief  of  police, and 
all  police  officers,  to  suppress  all  such  dog  fights,  and  to 
arrest  and  prosecute  all  persons,  engaged  in  urging  the 
said  dogs  to  fight,  or  in  any  manner  encouraging  them  to 
fiofht,  within  the  meaninor  ol  this  section. 

§ 5.  Any  person  who  shall  disquiet  or  disturb  any  con- 
gregation or  assembly  met  for  religious  worship, 
by  making  a noise,  or  by  rude  and  indecent 
behavior,  or  profane  discourse  within  their  place  of 
worship,  or  so  near  the  same  as  to  disturb  the  order  and 
solemnity  of  the  meeting,  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not 
exceeding  fifty  dollars. 

§ 6.  Any  person  who  shall  employ  any  bellman,  or 
cause  to  be  used,  any  bell  or  bugle,  or  other  sounding  in- 
strument, or  who  shall  employ  any  device,  noise  or  per- 
formance tending  in  either  case  to  the  collection  of  persons 
on  the  streets,  sidewalks,  or  other  public  places  to  the  ob- 
struction of  the  same,  for  any  purpose  whatever,  without 
permission  from  the  mayor  in  writing,  shall  be  subject  to 
a fine  not  exceeding  twenty-five  dollars. 

§ 7.  Any  grocer,  dram  shop  keeper,  inn  keeper,  or  other 
person  who  shall  keep  any  common,  ill-governed  or  disor- 
derly house,  or  shall  suffer  any  person  to  play  at  cards  or 
other  games  of  chance,  in  any  public  sitting  room  on  his 
premises,  with  or  without  betting,  shall  be  subject  to  be 
fined  in  a sum  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  nor  less  than 
ten  dollars,  and  if  licensed,  shall  be  subject,  on  conviction 
to  a forfeiture  of  his  license,  to  be  entered  in  every  case  as 
a part  of  the  judgment. 

§ 8.  IN'o  person  shall  obstruct  or  encumber  any  street 
corner,  or  other  public  place  of  the  city  by  lounging  in  or 
about  the  same;  and  after  being  rerpiested  to  move  on  by 


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any  police  officer,  the  person  so  offending  shall  be  subject 
to  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  two  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 9.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  other  than 
such  as  are  employed  in  the  city  fire  or  police  departments, 
to  open,  meJdle  Avith,  derange,  or  in  any  manner  interfere 
Avith  any  signal  box  or  police  or  fire  alarm  telegraph  Avire, 
or  to  turn  in  any  alarm  thereon,  except  in  cases  of  fire  or 
other  emergency  requiring’  the  presence  of  the  fire  depart- 
ment or  police  officers.  Any  person  found  guilty  of  any 
of  the  offenses  herein  mentioned  shall  be  fined  in  a sum  not 
less  than  ten  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 10.  It  shall  be  unlawful  tor  any  person  to  have  in  his 
possession  any  nippers  of  the  description  knoAvn  as  burg- 
lar’s nippers,  pick  lock,  skeleton  key,  key  to  be  used  Avith 
a bit  or  bits,  jimmey,  or  other  burglar’s  instrument  or  tool 
of  Avhatsoever  kind  or  description,  unless  it  be  shoAvn  that 
such  possession  is  innocent  or  for  a lawful  purpose,  under 
the  penalty  of  not  less  than  tAventy  dollars,  or  imprison- 
ment in  the  brideAvell  for  not  less  than  one  month,  or  both, 

§ 11.  It  is  hereby  made  the  special  duty  of  the  chief  of 
police,  aldermen  and  policemen  of  the  city,  upon  their 
OAvn  vieAv  of  the  commission  of  any  of  the  offenses  contained 
in  this  chapter,  on  the  Sabbath  day,  to  arrest,  Avith  or 
without  process,  any  person  engaged  therein,  and  to  com- 
mit them  to  the  brideAvell,  there  to  remain  in  close  custody 
until  the  following  day,  Avhen  such  officer  shall  present  his 
complaint  of  such  offense  to  the  police  magistrate  or  any 
justice  of  the  peace  in  the  city,  Avho  shall  then  proceed  to 
try  said  prisoner  or  prisoners  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  the  ordinances  of  said  city. 


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ARTICLE  IV.  OFFENSES  EFFECTING  STREETS  AND  PUBLIC 
PROPERTY. 

Sec^  1.  Drains,  etc.,  penalty  for  digging. 

2.  Stone  and  gravel  not  be  removed  without  permission. 

3.  Sidewalks  not  to  be  injured;  penalty  of. 

4.  Animals  not  to  be  fastened  to  fences,  trees,  etc. 

5.  Bridges,  engine,  houses,  etc.,  penalty  for  injuring,  etc. 

6.  Bond  required. 

Section  1.  No  person  shall  dig  any  hole,  drain  or  ditch 
in  any  street,  alley  or  sidewalk  in  this  city,  without  having 
first  obtained  a written  permission  from  the  mayor  or 
the  superintendent  of  streets,  under  a penalty  of  twenty 
dollars  for  each  offense,  and  a like  penalty  for  every  day 
the  same  may  remain  unfilled. 

§ 2.  Any  person  who  shall,  without  having  first 
obtained  a written  permission  from  the  superintendent  of 
streets,  or  alderman  of  the  ward  in  which  the  same 
may  be,  dig,  remove  or  carry  away,  or  cause  or  procure 
the  same  to  be  done,  any  sod,  stone,  earth,  sand  or  gravel 
from  any  street,  alley  or  public  ground  in  this  city,  shall 
be  subject  to  a fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  nor  less 
than  ten  dollars  for  each  offense,  and  every  load  or  parcel 
removed  shall  be  deemed  a separate  offense. 

§ 3.  Any  person  who  shall  injure  or  tear  up  any  pave- 
ment, side  or  cross  walk,  drain  or  sewer,  or  any  part 
thereof,  or  who  shall  dig  any  hole,  ditch  or  drain  in  any 
street,  pavement  or  sidewalk,  without  due  authority,  or 
who  shall  hinder  or  obstruct  the  making  or  repairing 
any  pavement,  cross  or  sidewalk  which  is  or  may  be  mak- 
ing under  any  ordinance  or  resolution  of  the  city  council, 
or  who  shall  hinder  or  obstruct  any  person  employed  by 
the  city  council  or  superintendent  of  streets,  or  the  person 


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employed  by  him  in  making  or  repairing  any  public 
improvement,  or  work  ordered  by  the  city  council  shall, 
for  every  oftense,  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  ten 
dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars. 

§ 4.  Any  person  who  shall  hitch  or  fasten  any  horse  or 
other  animal  to  any  fence,  railing,  ornamental  or  shade 
tree,  or  to  any  lamp  post,  or  Avho  shall  injure  or  destroy 
any  ornamental  or  shade  tree,  shrub  lamp,  post,  fence,  rail- 
ing, in  or  upon  any  public  ground,  street,  alley  or  other 
public  place,  or  upon  any  private  premises,  shall  in  every 
case  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor 
exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 5.  Any  person  who  shall  injure  or  destroy,  or  assist 
in  injuring  or  destroying  any  bridge  or  its  appurtenances, 
or  any  fire  engine  house,  or  any  other  public  building  or 
property  belonging  to  the  city,  shall  be  subject  to  a fine, 
not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars,  and  to  the  payment  of 
all  damages. 

§ 6.  That  no  person  shall  receive  the  permission  pro- 
vided in  this  chapter  to  dig  any  hole,  drain  or  ditch  in  any 
street,  alley  or  sidewalk,  or  encumber  or  obstruct  any 
street,  alley  or  sidewalk  in  any  manner  whatever,  without 
first  filing  with  the  city  clerk  a good  and  suflicient  bond, 
to  be  approved  by  the  mayor  and  city  clerk,  conditioned 
for  the  payment  of  all  damages  to  persons  and  property 
that  may  .be  sustained  in  consequence  of  the  granting  of 
such  permission,  audit  is  made  the  duty  of  the  superintend- 
ent of  streets  to  see  that  this  section  is  strictly  enforced. 


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ARTICLE  T.  IMPRISONMENT. 

Sec.  1.  Magistrates  may  imprison . 

Section  1.  That  all  cases  arising  under  this  chapter, 
punishable  as  misdemeanors,  by  the  laws  of  this  state,  the 
court  or  magistrate  before  Avhom  conviction  may  be  had, 
shall  have  power,  in  addition  to  the  penalty,  of  causin 
the  offender  to  be  imprisoned  for  a period  not  exceedin 
six  months,  in  their  discretion. 


CHAPTER  XXIX 

NUISANCES. 

Sec.  1.  Nuisances  defined. 

2.  What  shall  he  deemed  a nuisance;  penalty. 

3.  Cellars,  drains,  etc.,  to  be  closed. 

4.  Distilleries,  etc.,  not  to  allow  nuisances. 

5.  Nuisances,  penalty  for  allowing  on  grounds. 

6.  Soapboilers,  penalty  for  keeping  on  premises. 

7.  Tanneries,  etc. 

8.  Dead  animals  on  river  bank  to  be  removed. 

9.  Must  not  deposit  filth,  offal,  etc.,  in  the  city. 

10.  Must  not  discharge  offensive  substance  in  the  river,  etc. 

11.  Not  place  dead  animals  in  the  city. 

12.  Owners  ot  dead  animals  to  remove  the  same. 

13.  Health  officers,  duty  of. 

Owners  to  be  assessed  for  abatement  of  nuisances. 

14.  Charges  for  removing  nuisances,  how  collected. 

15.  Nuisances  to  be  removed  by  health  officers,  etc. 

16.  Penalty  for  refusing  to  obey  orders. 

17.  Jurisdiction  in  offenses  known  to  the  common  law  as  nuisances. 

Section  1.  That  any  pen,  place  or  premises  in  or  upon 
any  grounds,  in  which  more  than  ten  hogs,  shoats  and  pigs 
shall  be  confined  or  kept  at  any  one  time.  2nd.  Any  pen, 
place  or  premises  in  which  a less  number  of  hogs,  shoats 
and  pigs  than  ten,  shall  be  so  kept  as  to  be  offensive  or 
annoying  to  any  person.  3d.  And  any  hand-bill  or  play 
card  of  any  description  which  shall  be  stuck  or  posted  on 


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any  public  or  private  house,  store  or  other  building,  or  upon 
any  fence  or  other  premises,  without  permission  of  the 
owner  or  occupant  of  the  same,  are  hereby  severally  defined 
and  declared  to  be  nuisances. 

§ 2.  Any  person  who  shall  own,  or  keep>  or  rise  any 
pen  or  pens,  place  or  premises,  or  shall  post  or  stick  any 
hand-bill  or  play  card  contrary,  in  either  case,  to  the  fore- 
going provision,  shall  be  deemed  the  author  of  a nuisance, 
and  on  conviction,  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than 
three  dollars,  and  not  exceeding  twenty-five  dollars  in  each 
case,  and  to  a like  fine  for  every  day  he  shall  fail  or  refuse 
to  abate  such  nuisance,  when  notified  by  an  officer  to  abate 
the  same. 

§ 3.  If  any  person  shall  suffer  or  permit  any  cellar, 
vault,  private  drain,  pool,  privy,  sewer  or  grounds,  upon 
any  premises  belongingto,  or  occupied  by  him,  to  become 
nauseous,  foul,  offensive  or  injurious  to  the  public  health, 
he  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  and 
not  exceeding  fifty  dollars  in  every  case,  and  to  a like  fine 
for  every  day  the  same  shall  continue,  after  notice  to  re- 
move and  abate  such  nuisance. 

§ 4.  Any  distiller,  tanner,  brewer,  soap  boiler,  tallow 
chandler,  dyer,  livery  stable  keeper,  or  other  person  who 
shall  himself  or  by  another,  discharge  out  of,  or  permit  to 
blow  from  any  still  house,  work  shop,  manufactory,  livery 
stable  or  other  house,  any  foul  or  nauseous  liquor,  or  sub- 
stance of  any  kind  whatever,  into  or  upon  any  adjacent 
ground  or  lot,  or  into  any  street,  alley,  or  other  public 
place,  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars, 
and  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars  for  every  offense. 

§ 5.  If  any  person  shall  own,  occupy  or  keep  any 
grounds  or  other  premises  in  such  condition  as  to  be  offen- 


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sive  and  a nuisance  to  the  neighborhood,  or  to  any  person 
or  family,  he  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  ten 
dollars,  and  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  and  to  a like  fine 
for  every  day  such  nuisance  shall  continue  after  notice  to 
abate  the  same. 

§ 6.  Any  soap  boiler,  tallow  chandler,  or  other  person, 
who  shall  keep,  collect,  or  cause  to  be  kept  or  used,  any 
stale  or  stinking  fat,  grease  or  other  matter,  or  any  tanner, 
skinner  or  other  persop  who  shall  bring  to,  or  keep  for  a 
period  of  twenty-four  hours,  in  any  part  of  the  city,  ex- 
cept when  the  same  are  to  be  manufactured,  any  undressed 
or  uncured  hides,  skins,  or  leather,  or  blubber,  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  a penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  oflrense. 

§ 7.  Any  factory,  building,  or  structure  of  any  kind,  or 
tallow  chandler’s  shop,  soap  factory,  tannery,  distillery, 
livery  stable,  cattle  yard  or  shed,  barn,  packing  house,  or 
rendering  establishment,  which  shall  become  nauseous, 
foul  or  offensive,  is  hereby  declared  a nuisance,  and  the 
person  or  persons  owning,  keeping  or  maintaining  any 
such  factory,  shop,  yard,  house,  building  or  structure  afore- 
said, shall  be  fined  in  a sum  not  less  than  ten  dollars  and 
not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 8.  If  any  person  shall  allow  or  suffer  any  horse  or 
other  animal  belonging  to  him,  or  in  his  charge,  which  may 
come  to  its  death  by  drowning  or  otherwise,  to  lie  upon 
the  banks  of  the  river  or  canal  in  the  city,  or  in,  or  upon 
any  street  or  alley  or  other  ground  or  place,  public  or  pri- 
vate, he  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  five  dol- 
lars, and  not  exceeding  teii  dollars  in  every  case. 

§ 9.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  to  throw  or 
deposit,  or  cause  to  be  thrown  or  deposited  at  any  place  in 
said  city,  any  vegetables,  meat,  slops  or  other  offal  or  filth 


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which,  by  putrefaction  or  decomposition,  will  produce  an 
offensive  smell,  or  whereby  the  health  of  any  portion  of 
the  community  may  be  affected  or  endangered : and  every 
person  violating  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  not  less  than  two  dollars,  nor  more  than  fifty  dof 
lars  for  each  and  every  offense. 

§ 10.  Any  person  who  shall  discharge,  or  cause  to  be 
discharged  into  the  Desplaines  river,  or  Hickory  or  Spring 
creeks,  within  the  limits  of  said  city,  any  dead  animal  or 
animals,  offensive  substance  or  thing  which  may  or  shall 
produce  an  offensive  or  nauseous  smell,  or  which  might  af- 
fect the  purity  of  the  water^  or  endanger  the  health  of  any 
portion  of  the  citizens,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  creating  a 
nuisance ; and  every  person  so  offending  shall,  on  convic- 
tion, forfeit  and  pay  not  less  than  two  dollars,  and  not 
more  than  fifty  dollars  for  every  offense.  And  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  chief  of  police  or  superintendent  of  streets 
to  cause  any  such  animal  or  animals  to  be  removed  imme- 
diately if  practicable,  and  charge  the  expense  thereof  to 
the  offender  or  offenders,  and  sue  for  and  collect  the  same 
by  action  of  debt,  in  the  name  of  the  city  of  Joliet. 

§ 11.  No  person  shall  place  or  deposit,  or  cause  to  be 
placed  or  deposited,  at  any  place  in  said  city,  any  dead 
horse,  cow,  hog,  dog,  or  the  carcass  or  remains  of  any  ani- 
mal whatever;  and  every  person  violating  the  provisions 
of  this  section  shall  forfeit  and  pay  not  less  than  two  dol- 
lars, nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  every  offense, 
and  all  expenses  of  removing  and  burying  the  same,  which 
shall  be  taxed  and  collected  as,  costs  ag*ainst  such  person. 

§ 12.  When  any  dead  animal  shall  be  found  in  said  city 
it  shall  be  duty  of  the  xDerson  owning  such  animal  at  the 
ime  of  its  death,  or  of  the  person  who  deposited  or  caused 


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the  same  to  be  deposited,  to  remove  said  animal  forthwith, 
beyond  the  limits  of  the  city,  and  bury  the  same  at  least 
two  feet  below  the  surface  of  the  earth,  and  if  the  owner 
of  such  animal,  or  the  person  who  deposited  it,  on  being 
notified  thereof,  either  verbally  or  in  writing,  by  the  chief 
of  police,  superintendent  of  streets,  or  any  policeman  or 
other  person,  shall,  after  a reasonable  time,  refuse  and  neg- 
lect to  remove  and  bury  the  same  as  herein  required,  he 
shall  be  fined  in  a sum  not  less  than  two  dollars  nor  more 
than  twenty-five  dollars  for  every  offense;  and  shall  also 
pay  the  expense  of  removing  and  burying  the  same,  which 
shall  be  taxed  and  collected  as  costs  against  such  person. 

§ 13.  For  the  purpose  of  carrying  the  foregoing  provis- 
ions into  effect,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  health  officers, 
superintendent  of  streets,  chief  of  police,  and  such  other 
officer  as  may  be  directed  or  deputied  by  the  mayor,  or 
board  of  health,  or  city  council,  from  time  to  time,  to  as- 
certain and  cause  all  nuisances  arising  under  this  chapter 
to  be  abated.  In  all  cases  when  a nuisance  shall  be  found 
in  any  building,  or  upon  any  grounds  or  other  premises, 
which  can  be  charged  by  assessment  with  the  expenses  of 
removal,  notice  shall  be  given  to  the  owner  or  occupant  of 
such  building  or  other  premises  as  aforesaid,  when  known 
und  can  be  found,  to  remove  such  nuisance;  and  in  case  of 
his  refusal  or  neglect  to  comply  with  such  notice,  the  offi- 
cers shall  abate  the  same  and  report  the  expenses  thereof 
to  the  city  council. 

§ 14,  In  all  cases  arising  under  this  chapter,  or  any  or- 
dinance,where  the  expense  of  removing  any  nuisance  cannot 
be  made  chargeable  to  any  real  estate  by  assessment,  no- 
tice may  be  given  to  the  author  of  such  nuisance  when 
known,  to  abate  the  same,  in  the  manner  required  by  the 


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foregoing  section ; and  in  case  of  his  neglect  or  refusal  to 
abate  the  same  in  accordance  with  such  notice,  he  shall  be 
chargeable  with  the  .expenses  which  may  be  incurred  by 
the  officer  in  the  removal  thereof,  to  be  collected  by  suit  or 
otherwise , in  addition  to  the  fine  or  penalty. 

§ 15.  Whenever  any  nuisance  whatever,  shall  be  found 
on  any  premises,  or  elsewhere  within  the  city,  contrary  to 
any  ordinance,  the  mayor  and  board  of  health,  or  health 
officers,  are  hereby  respectively  authorized,  in  their  discre- 
tion, to  cause  the  same  to  be  summarily  abated  in  such 
manner  as  they  may  direct. 

§ 16.  If  any  person  or  persons  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to 
obey  any  order  or  decision  of  the  board  of  health,  or  any 
order  of  the  mayor  or  health  officers,  requiring  such  person 
or  persons  to  clean  up  his  or  their  premises,  or  to  remove 
any  nuisance,  he,  she,  or  they  shall  be  liable  to  a fine  not 
exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 17.  In  all  cases  where  no  provision  is  herein  made  de- 
fining what  are  nuisances  and  how  the  same  may  be  re- 
moved, abated  or  prevented  in  addition  to  what  may  be  de- 
clared such  herein,  those  offenses  which  are  known  to  the 
common  law  of  the  laud  and  the  statutes  of  Illinois  as  nui- 
sances, may,  in  case  the  same  exist  within  the  city  limits, 
or  within  one  mile  thereof,  be  treated  as  such,  and  pro- 
ceeded against  as  is  in  this  chapter  provided,  or  in  accord- 
ance with  any  other  law  which  shall  give  the  officer  trying 
the  same,  jurisdiction. 


CHAPTER  XXX. 

OFFICEES. 

SEC.  1.  The  Mayor  shall  appoint  and  the  council  confirm. 

2.  Officers  to  give  bonds. 

Section  1.  That  the  mayor  by  and  with  the  consent  of 


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the  city  council,  shall  appoint  on  the  first  regular  meeting 
in  may  of  each  year : 

One  chief  of  police,  one  captain  of  police,  a bridewell 
keeper,  and  as  many  regular  policemen  as  the  city  council 
may  determine. 

One  fire  marshal. 

A city  collector, 

A corporation  counsel, 

A city  surveyor, 

A city  superintendent  of  streets,  an  oil  inspector,  a sealer 
of  weights  and  measures,  and  a board  of  health,  who  shall 
hold  their  respective  ofiSces  for  one  year,  and  until  their 
successors  are  appointed  and  qualified,  unless  removed  by 
the  mayor  and  city  council,  and  shall  perform  such  duties 
as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  city  council.  The  term  of  of- 
fice of  such  ofiScers  to  commence  at  the  time  provided  by 
ordinance. 

§ 2.  Every  officer  of  said  city,  except  aldermen,  shall, 
before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  give  bond  to 
the  city  of  Joliet  in  such  sum  as  the  city  council  may 
designate,  or  as  may  be  specially  provided  by  ordinance, 
with  two  or  more  good  and  sufficient  securities,  residents 
of  this  city,  to  be  approved  by  the  city  council;  which 
bond,  when  not  otherwise  provided  by  law  or  ordinance, 
shall  be  conditioned  for  the  prompt  and  faithful  perform- 
ance by  such  officer  of  all  acts  and  duties  required  of  him 
as  such  officer  by  any  law  of  the  State  of  Illinois  or  ordin- 
ance of  the  city  of  Joliet,  then  in  force,  or  that  may  be 
subsequently  passed,  and  for  the  prompt  accounting  for, 
and  payment  to  the  city  or  its  proper  officers  of,  all  mon- 
eys that  may  come  into  his  hands  by  virtue  of  his  office. 


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CHAPTER  XXXI. 

OIL. 

Sec.  I.  Unlawful  to  keep  certain  quantity  for  sale  or  storage. 

2.  How  oU  may  be  kept  by  dealers. 

3.  Penalty  for  violation. 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  lor  any  person,  persons 
or  corporation  to  store  or  keep  for  sale  within  the  corporate 
limits  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  any  coal  oil,  naptha,  gasoline, 
benzine  or  any  other  mineral  oil  or  fluid  the  product  of 
petroleum,  exceeding  a quantity  of  five  barrels  of  fifty 
gallons  each.  And  it  shall  be  unlawful  to  keep  for  sale  or 
storage  any  of  said  oils  or  fluids  excepting  such  as  will 
stand  a fire  test  ot  150  degrees  Fahrenheit,  according  to 
the  inspection  provided  for  in  the  ordinances  of  the  city ; 
and  it  shall  not  be  laAvful  to  keep  any  quantity  of  said  oils 
or  fluids  exceeding  one  barrel  of  fifty  gallons  in  each  part 
of  a building  excepting  in  a cellar  the  walls  of  which  are 
of  stone  or  brick  and  the  floor  at  least  five  feet  below  the 
grade  of  the  adjacent  streets;  and  no  such  oil  or  fluid 
shall  be  kept  or  stored  in  front  of  any  building,  or  on  any 
street,  alley,  wharf,  lot  or  sidewalk,  for  a longer  time 
than  is  sufficient  to  receive  in  store,  or  in  delivering  the 
same,  and  such  time  shall  in  no  case  exceed  six  hours. 

§ 2.  Any  person,  persons  or  corporation  having  within 
the  city  a fire  proof  warehouse,  detached  and  clear  of 
other  buildings,  and  at  least  fifty  feet  distant,  and  exclu- 
sively used  for  the  storage  of  such  oils  and  fluids  as  men- 
tioned in  this  chapter  and  properly  ventilated  for  that  pur- 
pose, having  beneath-  its  ground  floor  an  open  space  or  cel- 
lar, three  teet  in  depth  below  the  surface  of  the  adjacent 


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o^roiincl,  on  procuring  the  approval  in  writing  of  the  fire 
marshal,  may  apply  to  the  city  council  for  a permit  to  use 
said  Tvarehouse  exclusively  for  said  purpose;  and  if  the 
city  council,  with  the  consent  of  the  mayor,  shall  grant 
such  permit  then  while  the  same  shall  remain  in  force  the 
parties  using  such  warehouse  shall  not  be  subject  to  the 
provisions  of  the  foregoing  section. 

§ 3.  Any  person  or  persons  who  shall  violate  any  of 
the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  or  any  manufacturer,  refiner 
or  dealer  in  any  of  said  oils  or  fluids  who  shall  neglect  to 
give  notice  to  the  oil  inspector  of  this  city,  of  any  such 
oil  or  fluid  in  his  possession,  not  already  inspected  by  some 
authorized  inspector  of  this  state,  within  two  days  after 
the  same  is  made,  refined  or  received  by  him,  or  shall 
offer  any  such  oil  or  fluid  for  sale  before  the  same  has 
been  inspected,  or  who  shall  attempt  to  sell  to  any  per- 
son, for  illuminating  purposes,  any  such  oil  which  is 
below  the  standard  test,  as  mentioned  in  Section  One  of 
this  chapter,  or  shall  use  any  package,  cask,  barrel  or 
other  thing  having  the  inspector’s  brand  thereon,  the 
oil  or  fluid  therein  not  having  been  inspected,  or  shall 
counterfeit  any  brand,  shall  be  fined  in  any  sum  not  less 
than  twenty-five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dol- 
lars for  each  oflTense. 


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CHAPTER  XXXir. 

OIL  INSPECTOK. 

Sec.  1.  How  appointed. 

2.  Bond  to  be  given. 

3.  Duties  of. 

4.  Oils,  how  tested. 

5.  Kecoi’d  to  be  kept. 

6.  False  brands,  penalty, 

7.  Fees  of  inspector. 

Section  1.  That  the  mayor,  by  and  with  the  consent  and 
advice  of  the  city  council  and  on  petition  of  any  five  inhal> 
itants  of  said  city,  shall  appoint  one  or  more  inspectors  for 
the  inspection  of  coal  oil, naptha, g'asoline,benzine  and  other 
mineral  oils  or  fluids,  the  product  of  petroleum.  The  com- 
pensation of  said  inspector  or  inspectors  to  be  paid  by  the 
party  requiring'  their  services,  at  the  rates  hereinafter  pro- 
vided. Every  such  inspector  shall  hold  his  oflSce  for  one 
year,  and  until  his  successor  is  qualified,  unless  sooner  re- 
moved from  office.  Such  inspector  or  inspectors  may  ap- 
point deputies  for  whom  he  shall  be  responsible,  and  who 
shall  take  the  same  oath,  and  be  liable  to  the  same  penal- 
ties as  the  inspector. 

§ 2.  Every  such  inspector  before  entering  upon  the  du- 
ties of  his  office  shall  take  and  subscribe  the  oath  of  office 
provided  by  law,  and  he  shall  also  execute  bond  to  the  peo- 
ple of  the  state  of  Illinois  in  the  penal  sum  of  $500,  with 
one  or  more  good  sureties  to  be  approved  by  the  mayor  of 
said  city,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  discharge  of  the  du- 
ties of  his  office.  Any  person  aggrieved  by  the  misconduct 
or  neglect  of  such  inspector  may  maintain  suit  therein  for 
his  own  use. 

§ 3-  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  inspector,  upon  the  ap- 


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plication  of  any  manufacturer,  refiner  or  producer  of,  or  any 
dealer  in  any  such  oil  or  fluid  or  any  person,  to  test  the 
same  with  all  reasonable  dispatch,  by  applying  the  fire 
test  as  indicated  and  determined  by  J.  Tagliabue’s  pyrome- 
ter, or  some  other  instrument  or  means  equally  accurate, 
with  which  he  shall  provide  himself  at  his  own  expense. 

§ 4.  If  the  oils  or  fluids  so  tested  will  not  ignite  or  ex- 
plode at  a temperature  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  degrees 
Fahrenheit,  the  inspector  shall  mark,  plainly  and  indelibly 
on  each  cash,  barrel  or  package,  “Approved,  fire  test  being 

,”  but  if  said  oils  will  ignite  on  a temperature  of  one 

hundred  and  fifty  degrees  Fahrenheit,  as  aforesaid,  then  the 
inspector  shall  mark  on  each  cask,  barrel  or  package,  “Con- 
demned for  illuminating  purposes,  fire  test  being 

Said  inspector,  while  in  ofiice  shall  neither  buy,  sell,  bar- 
gain nor  trade,  directly  or  indirectly  in  any  of  said  oils  or 
fluids. 

§ 5.  He  shall  within  twenty-four  hours  after  making 
any  inspection,  make  a full  and  fair  entry  thereof  in  a rec- 
ord book  to  be  kept  for  the  purpose,  which  book  shall  be 
open  to  all  persons  wishing  to  examine  it.  And  he  shall 
also  make  monthly  reports  to  the  city  council,  setting 
forth  therein  the  amount,  kind  and  quality  of  all  oils  or 
fluids  inspected  by  him,  with  the  names  of  the  owners  of 
each  parcel,  together  with  such  other  information  as  the 
city  eouncil  may  direct. 

§ 6.  Any  such  inspector  or  deputy  who  falsely  brands 
any  package,  cask  or  barrel,  or  be  guilty  of  any  fraud,  de- 
ceit, misconduct  or  culpable  negligence  in  the  performance 
of  any  of  his  official  duties,  or  who  shall  neglect,  refuse  or 
fail  to  comply  with  any  of  the  requirements  of  this  chap- 


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ter,  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars 
nor  to  exceed  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 7.  The  fees  of  the  oil  inspector  shall  be  as  follows,  to 
be  paid  by  those  requiring  his  services:  For  each  package 
cask  or  barrel,  when  inspected  in  less  quantities  than  fifty 
barrels,  casks  or  packages,  ten  cents.  When  inspected  in 
quantities  of  fifty  barrels,  casks  or  packages,  or  more,  five 
cents;  when  inspected  in  tank,  at  the  rate  of  five  cents  for 
each  forty  gallons. 


CHAPTER  XXXIII. 

PAWNBROKEES. 

Sec.  1.  Defined. 

2.  To  procure  license. 

3 City  council  to  grant  license. 

4.  To  keep  regi  ster. 

Section  1.  That  any  person  who  loans  money  on  deposit 
or  pledge  of  personal  property,  or  other  valuable  thing, 
other  than  real  estate,  or  who  deals  in  the  purchasing  of 
personal  property,  or  other  valuable  thing,  other  than  real 
estate,  on  condition  of  selling  the  same  back  again  at  a 
stipulated  price,  is  hereby  defined  and  declared  to  be  a 
pawnbroker. 

§ 2.  That  no  person  shall  carry  on  or  conduct  the  busi- 
ness or  calling  of  a pawnbroker  in  this  city  without  a li- 
cense, under  a penalty  of  twenty  dollars  for  every  offense. 

§ 3.  The  city  council  are  hereby  authorized  to  grant  a 
pawnbroker’s  license  to  any  person  of  good  character  who 
may  apply  therefor,  and  enter  with  two  sufScient  sureties 
into  a joint  and  several  bond  to  the  city  of  Joliet  in  the 


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penalty  of  five  hundred  dollars,  conditioned  for  the  due  ob- 
servance of  all  such  ordinances  ot  the  city  council  as  may 
be  passed  or  in  force  respecting  pawnbrokers,  at  any  time 
durinof  the  continuance  of  such  license.  Whenever  such 
license  shall  be  granted  it  shall  be  the  duty  ot  the  appli- 
cant to  pay  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars  into  the  city  treasury, 
and  thereupon  the  city  clerk  shall  issue  a license  in  due 
form,  under  the  corporate  seal,  signed  by  the  mayor  and 
countersigned  by  himself,  the  term  of  such  license  to  be 
for  one  year. 

§ 4.  Every  pawnbroker  shall  keep  a book  in  which  shall 
be  fairly  written  in  ink  at  the  time  of  each  loan  an  accur- 
ate account  and  description  of  the  goods,  article  or  thing 
pawned  or  pledged,  the  amount  loaned  thereon,  the  time 
of  pledging  the  same,  the  rate  of  interest  to  be  paid  on 
such  loan,  and  the  name  and  residence  of  the  person  pawn- 
ing or  pledging  the  said  goods,  article  or  thing.  No  entry 
made  in  such  book  shall  be  erased,  obliterated  or  defaced. 


CHAPTER  XXXIV. 

PEDDLERS. 

Sec.  1.  Peddlers  defined. 

2.  To  procure  license. 

3.  Mayor  to  grant  license,  time,  etc. 

4.  Name  and  No.  placed  on  vehicles. 

5.  Ordinance,  how  construed. 

Section  1.  That  every  person  who  shall  sell  or  offer 
any  goods,  wares  or  merchandise,  or  other  article  of  value 
for  sale,  at  any  place, in  or  upon  any  of  the  streets,  avenues, 
alleys,  docks,  wharves,  or  other  public  or  private  places, 
or  private  houses  of  this  city,  shall  be  deemed  a peddler. 


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§ 2.  Every  person  canvassing  or  taking  orders  for 
books,  pictures,  publications  or  other  articles,  shall  be 
deemed  a peddler  within  the  scope  of  this  chapter,  and  be 
required  to  take  out  a peddler’s  license ; but  no  license 
shall  be  required  for  the  delivering  of  any  article  when  the 
order  therefor  was  taken  under  a license;  if,  however,  no 
license  was  taken  out  by  the  canvasser,  the  article  shall  not 
be  delivered  without  a peddler’s  \ Provided , that  regu- 

lar commercial  travelers,  employed  by  wholesale  houses  and 
selling  articles  of  merchandise  to  the  regular  dealers  of 
the  city,  shall  not  be  deemed  to  be  within  the  moaning  of 
this  chapter. 

§ 3.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  peddler  to  exercise 
his  calling  within  the  city  without  first  having  obtained  a 
license  therefor,  under  a penalty  of  not  less  than  five  dol- 
lars nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  every  oftense. 

§ 4.  The  mayor  is  hereby  authorized  to  grant  peddlers’ 
license  to  any  person  who  may  apply  therefor,  upon  the 
payment  of  not  less  than  two  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty 
dollars,  into  the  city  treasury,  said  license  to  continue  in 
force  for  any  period  not  exceeding  one  year. 

§ 5.  Any  person  who  shall  exercise  the  vocation  of  a 
peddler  by  means  of  wagon,  cart,  or  other  vehicle,  shall 
cause  his  name,  together  with  the  number  of  his  license,  to 
be  plainly  painted  on  the  outside  of  his  vehicle,  in  letters 
and  figures  not  less  than  one  inch  in  length;  any  violation 
of  this  section  shall  subject  the  offender  to  a fine  of  not  less 
than  three  dollars,  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each  of- 
fense. 

§ 6.  This  chapter  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  apply 
to  any  person  or  persons  coming  into  the  city  from  the 


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country  with  teams  or  otherwise  w^ith  any  produce  for 
market,  or  to  any  person  selling  vegetables,  berries,  or  the 
produce  of  their  own  farms  or  premises,  nor  shall  the  same 
be  construed  as  applicable  to  children  under  the  age  of  fif- 
teen years  peddling  apples  or  other  fruits,  provided  they 
do  not  occupy  a stand;  nor  shall  it  apply  to  the  peddling 
of  newspapers,  or  to  the  sale  of  goods,  wares,  or  merchan- 
dise manufactured  in  the  city  of  Joliet  by  the  person  or 
persons  selling  the  same. 


chapter  XXXV. 

POLICE  DEPARTMENT. 

* 

Sec.  1.  Police  department  established . 

2.  The  mayor  to  be  head  of  police. 

3.  Duties  of  chief  of  police. 

4.  Term  of  office  and  removal. 

5.  Authority  to  serve  wari-ants. 

6.  Officers,  penalty  for  fraud  etc,,  may  be  removed, 

7.  Qualification  of  officers. 

8.  Penalty  for  resisting,  etc. 

9.  All  persons  to  assist  officers,  penalty  for  refusing. 

10.  Officer  at  police  headquarters,  records,  etc. 

11.  Regulations,  uriform,  etc. 

Section  1.  That  there  be,  and  hereby  is,  established  a 
police  department  for  the  city  of  Joliet,  which  shall  con- 
sist ot  one  chief  of  police,  one  captain,  and  such  other  po- 
licemen as  shall,  from  time  to  time,  be  appointed  by  the 
mayor,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the  city  council,  who 
shall  act  and  be  known  as  police  oflicers  of  said  city. 

§ 2.  The  mayor  shall  be  the  head  of  the  police  depart- 
ment, and  shall  superintend  and  direct  the  police  generally, 
and  from  time  to  time  give  such  directions  as  he  may  deem 
proper  and  necessary  for  the  preservation  of  the  peace  and 
good  order  and  enforcing  of  the  laws  and  ordinances  of 


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said  city,  and  may  from  time  to  time,  when  deemed  advis- 
able, appoint  special  policemen  and  night  watchmen.  Ev- 
ery member  of  the  police  department  shall  wear  a suitable 
badge  to  be  furnished  by  the  city,  and  any  member  who 
shall  lose  or  destroy  the  same,  shall  be  required  to  pay  the 
cost  of  replacing  it,  and  whenever  any  member  shall  leave 
the  department,  he  shall  immedi  itely  deliver  his  badge  to 
the  chief  of  police. 

§ 3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  of  police  to  cause 
the  public  peace  to  be  preserved,  and  to  see  that  all  laws 
and  ordinances  are  enforced,  and  whenever  any  violation 
thereof  shall  come  to  his  knowledge,  or  be  reported  to  him 
he  shall  cause  the  requisite  complaint  to  be  made,  and  see 
that  the  evidence  is  procured  for  the  successful  prosecutioa 
of  the  offender  or  offenders;  he  and  his  subordinates  shall 
obey  all  such  police  rules  as  may  be  established  for  the  reg- 
ulation of  the  police  department.  The  chief  of  police  shall 
attend  the  sessions  of  the  city  council  and  board  of  health. 

§ 4.  The  police  officers  shall  hold  their  office  for  the 
time  sj^ecified  in  the  order  making  their  appointment,  pro- 
vided, that  no  police  officer  shall  hold  his  office  for  a 
longer  term  under  one  appointment,  than  one  year,  and 
provided,  they  may  be  removed  by  the  mayor,  whenever, 
in  his  opinion,  the  interest  of  the  city  requires  such  re- 
moval, and  he  shall  report  such  removal  with  his  reasons 
therefor,  to  the  city  council  at  its  next  regular  meeting, 
and  if  the  city  council^  by  a two-thirds  vote  of  all  its  mem- 
bers, by  yeas  and  nays,  to  be  entered  upon  its  record,  shall 
disapprove  of  such  removal,  such  officer  shall  thereby  be- 
come restored  to  the  office  from  which  he  was  removed. 

§ 5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  officers  to  aid  and 
assist  the  chief  of  police  in  the  execution  of  the  duties 


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241 


herein  enjoined,  and  they  shall  have  power  and  authority 
in  the  city,  to  serve  and  execute  warrants  and  other  process 
for  the  apprehension  and  coniinitment  of  persons  charged 
with  any  minor  misdemeanor,  or  held  for  examination  or 
trial,  or  taken  in  execution  for  the  commission  of  any 
crime  or  misdemeanor  or  violation  of  any  law  or  ordinance 
of  the  city. 

§ 6.  Any  police  officer  who  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to 
perform  any  duty  required  of  him  by  the  ordinances  of 
this  city,  or  who  shall  in  the  discharge  of  his  official 
duties,  be  guilty  of  any  fraud,  extortion,  oppression,  favor- 
itism, partiality  or  willful  wrong  or  injustice,  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  a penalty  not  less  than  ten  dollars  and  not  exceed- 
ing one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offense  and  shall  also  be 
subject  to  removal  from  office.  Any  police  officer  found  in 
any  dram  shop  (except  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  as 
policeman)  or  playing  any  game  of  chance,  or  found  in  a 
state  of  intoxication  during  the  discharge  of  his  official 
duties,  shall  be  removed  from  office. 

§ 7.  Every  person  appointed  to  the  office  of  police, 
shall  be  at  the  time  of  his  appointment,  a citizen  of  the 
United  States,  and  shall  have  resided  in  this  city  one  year 
iiext  preceeding  his  appointment,  and  a qualified  voter  in 
this  city  at  the  time  of  such  appointment,  and  previous  to 
exercising  any  functions  of  his  office,  shall,  before  some 
person  legally,  authorized  to  administer  the  same,  take  and 
subscribe  the  oath  of  office  prescribed  by  the  constitution 
of  the  State  of  Illinois,  and  he  shall  cause  such  oath  to  be 
filed  in  the  office  of  the  city  clerk. 

§-  8.  Whoever  in  the  city  shall  resist  any  police  officer 
or  member  of  the  police  department,  in  the  discharge  of 
his  duty,  or  shall  in  any  way  interfere  with,  or  hinder  or 


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prevent  him  from  discharging  his  duty  as  such  officer  or 
member  of  the  police  department,  or  who  shall  offer  or 
endeavor  to  do  so,  and  whoever  shall  in  any  manner  assist 
any  person  in  custody  of  any  police  officer  or  member  of 
the  police  department  to  escape  or  attempt  to  escape  from 
such  custody,  or  shall  rescue  or  attempt  to  rescue  any 
person  so  in  custody,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  three  dol- 
lars nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 9.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  persons  in  the  city, 
when  called  upon  by  any  police  officer  or  member  of  the 
police  department,  to  prorhptly  aid  and  assist  him  in  the 
execution  of  his  duties.  Whoever  shall  neglect  or  refuse 
to  give  such  aid  and  assistance,  shall  be  fined  not  exceed- 
ing one  hundred  dollars,  in  the  discretion  of  the  court  or 
magistrate  convictine:. 

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§ 10.  One  member  of  the  police  shall  at  all  times  be  at 
police  headquarters,  and  whenever  any  person  shall  be 
arrested  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  person  making  such 
arrest  to  cause  the  prisoner  to  be  immediately  taken  to 
police  headquarters,  and  the  officer  on  duty  there  shall  set 
down  in  a book  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose,  the  name  of 
the  prisoner,  the  nature  of  the  offiense  charged  against  him, 
the  name  of  the  complaining  witness  together  with  the 
names  of  all  witnesses  on  behalf  of  the  city,  and  their  resi- 
dence if  known,  and  take  necessary  measures  to  secure 
the  attendance  of  such  witnesses  at  the  time  of  trial. 

The  chief  of  police  shall  also  cause  to  be  kept,  books  of 
record  of  the  police  force,  showing  arrests,  complaints 
against  policemen,  time  lost  by  policemen,  names  of  sus- 
pected persons  and  places  and  of  all  property  placed  in 
his  charge;  and  such  other  books  and  records  as  shall  be 
required  by  the  business  of  the  department. 


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§ 11.  The  mayor  and  chief  of  police  shall  make  suitable 
regulations,  under  which  the  officers  and  men  of  the  depart- 
ment shall  be  required  to  wear  any  appropriate  uniform 
and  badge,  by  which,  at  all  times  the  authority  and  rela- 
tions of  such  officers  and  men  in  said  department  may  be 
known,  as  the  exigency  of  their  duties  may  require. 


CHAPTER  XXXVI. 

POLICE  MAOISTEATE. 

Sec  1 . Where  suits  to  he  brought ; complaint. 

2.  If  Judgment  not  paid,  what  proceedings;  torm  of  execution;  proviso. 

3.  Defendant  must  work  out  fine. 

4.  If  defendant  refuse  to  work,  duty  of  officer. 

5.  Supei-intendent  of  streets  may  restrain  defendants. 

6.  How  the  officers  to  execute  writs. 

7.  Police  magistrate  and  justices  to  tax  costs. 

8.  Amount  of  fees  allowed  magistrates  and  other  officers. 

9.  City  attorney  to  try  suits. 

10.  Magisti-ates  to  act  as  police  court 

11.  Magistrates  and  justices  to  report  quarterly. 

12.  Penalty  for  failing  to  report. 

13.  When  costs  not  allowed. 

Section  1.  That  the  police  magistrate  and  justices  of ' 
the  peace  of  the  said  city  are  hereby  vested  with  jurisdic- 
tion in  all  actions,  suits  or  prosecutions  brought  for  the 
recovery  of  any  fine,  forfeiture  or  penalty  under  the  char- 
ter of  any  ordinance,  by-law,  or  police  regulation  passed  by 
the  city  council ; and  such  magistrate  or  justices  of  the 
peace  shall  have  power  to  fine  or  imprison,  or  both,  in  their 
discretion,  whenever  such  discretion  shall  be  vested  in  them 
by  said  act  or  acts,  or  any  by-law,  ordinance  or  police  reg- 
ulation aforesaid;  such  actions,  suits  and  prosecutions 
shall  be  commenced  and  prosecuted  in  the  manner  required 
by  the  charter,  and  the  acts  that  have  been  or  may  hereaf- 
ter be  passed  amendatory  thereto. 


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§ 2.  Immediately  upon  the  conviction  of  any  person  for 
any  breach  of  any  ordinance,  by-law  or  police  regulation 
of  said  city,  the  police  magistrate  or  justice  of  the  peace 
shall  enter  judgment  against  him  for  the  amount  of  fine 
and  costs  of  prosecution ; and  in  case  the  person  convicted 
shall  not  have  sufficient  property  to  pay  the  amount  of 
costs  and  fine  imposed  upon  him  under  this  chapter,  he 
shall  be  required  to  pay  the  same  by  manual  labor,  as  pro- 
vided by  the  ordinances  of  said  city,  at  the  rate  ot  fifty 
cents  per  day,  until  such  fine  or  judgment  and  all  costs 
thereon  shall  be  fully  paid ; and  immediately  upon  the  ren- 
dition of  judgment  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  magis- 
trate, or  justice  of  the  peace  to  issue  an  execution  in  the 
following  form  as  near  as  may  be,  to-wit: 

State  of  Illinois,  ) 

County  of  Will,  V ss. 

City  of  Joliet.  ) 

The  people  of  the  State  of  Illinois  to  any  constable  ot 
said  county  or  to  any  police  officer  of  said  city  greeting : 
Whereas,  the  city  of  Joliet  has  this  day  obtained  judg- 
. ment  before  the  undersigned,  a police  magistrate  (or  one 
of  the  justices  of  the  peace)  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  against 

for  violation  of  an  ordinance  of  said  city, 

lor dollars  fine,  and dollars  costs  of  prose- 

cution, these  are  therefore  to  command  you  to  levy  said  fine 

and  the  costs,  of  the  goods  and  chattels  of  the  said 

within  the  said and  expose  the 

same  for  sale  agreeable  to  law ; and  for  want  of  sufficient 
property  wherewith  to  levy  and  make  said  fine  and  costs, 
you  are  hereby  commanded  to  take  the  body  of  the  said 

and  you  him  safely  deliver  to  the  keeper 

of  the  bridewell  of  said  city,  and  the  said  bridewell  keeper 
is  hereby  commanded  to  receive  and  safely  keep  him  in 


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custody  by  virtue  hereof  and  require  and  compel  the  said 
to  labor  at  manual  labor  as  by  the  ordi- 
nances of  said  city  provided,  at  the  rate  of  fifty  cents  per 
dry  until  the  whole  amount  of  said  fine  and  costs  are  paid, 
and  make  return  hereof  to  me. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  this. day  of 

188... 

Police  Magistrate  or  J.  P.  [L.S.] 

Provided^  however^  that  the  justice  of  the  peace  or  police 
magistrate  before  whom  the  conviction  is  had,  may,  in  his 
discretion,  issue  an  execution  directed  to  any  constable  of 
said  county,  or  any  police  officer  of  said  city,  to  take  the 
body  of  the  defendant,  and  in  default  of  payment,  that  he 
be  confined  in  the  city  bridewell  or  in  the  county  jail  until 
the  payment  thereof.  Provided^  also,  th'at  no  such  impris- 
onment shall  exceed  six  months  for  any  one  offense.  Such 
persons  shall  be  confined  at  the  rate  of  one  day  for  each 
fifty  cents  of  said  fine  or  judgment  and  costs,  and  may  be 
compelled  to  labor  as  provided  by  the  ordinances  of  said 
city. 

§ 3.  In  all  cases  under  this  chapter,  where  the  defend- 
ant is  required  to  work  out  his  fine  and  the  costs  on  the 
streets,  alleys  and  sidewalks,  the  chief  of  police  or  other  of- 
ficer having  him  in  custody,  shall  deliver  him,  together 
with  the  amount  due  and  endorsed  on  said  execution  the 
commitment  to  the  superintendent  of  streets,  or  the  bride- 
well keeper,  and  said  superintendent  of  streets  or  the  bride- 
well keeper  shall  require  said  defendant  so  delivered  to 
him,  to  perform  the  amount  of  labor  required  of  him  by 
this  chapter;  and  when  said  person  shall  have  worked  out 
the  amount  of  said  fine  or  judgment  and  costs  and  charges, 
on  the  streets,  as  herein  required,  the  said  superintendent 


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of  streets  shall  thereupon  notify  the  officer  thereof,  and  the 
said  officer  shall  make  return  to  the  police  magistrate  or 
justice  ot  the  peace  of  the  said  execution  and  commitment, 
that  the  judgment  is  satisfied  and  the  fine  and  costs  are 
paid  by  labor  on  the  streets,  and  said  person  shall  there- 
upon be  immediately  discharged. 

§ 4.  Every  person  who  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  labor 
diligently  as  above  required,  at  least  ten  hours  per  day  and 
until  judgment  so  rendered  against  him,  or  the  fine  and 
costs  are  paid  by  said  labor  at  the  rate  of  fifty  cents  per 
day,  shall  be  taken  to  the  city  bridewell  of  the  city  of  Jol- 
iet, and  there  kept  on  bread  and  water  alone  until  he  shall 
work  on  the  streets  and  alleys  as  required  by  this  chapter, 
or  pay  the  amount  of  such  judgment  of  fine  and  costs.  Pro- 
vided, however,  that  no  person  shall  be  required  to  labor 
upon  the  streets  or  alleys  of  said  city,  whose  health  or 
strength  will  not  admit. 

'§  5.  The  superintendent  of  streets  or  bridewell  keeper 
is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered,  in  his  discretion,  to 
place  and  impose  such  restraint  upon  any  person  required 
to  work  out  the  amount  of  judgment  of  fine  and  costs  as  is 
required  by  the  ordinance,  as  may  be  necessary  and  proper 
to  prevent  such  person  from  escaping  from  the  custody  of 
such  superintendent  of  streets  or  bridewell  keeper  during 
the  time  he  is  required  to  labor  as  aforesaid. 

§ 6.  The  officer  who  shall  execute  any  writ  or  other 
process  issued  by  a police  magistrate  or  justice  of  the  peace 
of  said  city  shall,  unless  otherwise  directed  by  this  or  some 
other  ordinance  of  said  city,  proceed  in  the  execution  of 
his  duty  in  the  same  manner  as  constables  are  required  to 
proceed  under  the  laws  of  this  state,  and  the  police  magis- 
trate or  justice  of  the  peace  in  issuing  process  and  on  the 


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return  thereof  shall,  unless  otherwise  directed  by  this  or 
some  other  ordinance  of  said  city,  be  g-overned  by  the  laws 
of  this  state  appertaining  to  proceedings  before  justices  of 
the  peace. 

§ 7.  The  police  magistrate  or  justice  of  the  peace  shall 
tax  as  part  of  the  costs,  all  fees  due  any  officer  under  or  by 
virtue  of  this  chapter  or  any  ordinance  of  said  city,  and  in 
cases  where  the  defendant  is  acquitted  the  complainant  or 
prosecuting  witness  may  be.  adjudged  to  pay  the  costs  if 
it  appears  to  the  magistrate  or  justice  of  the  peace  that  the 
prosecution  was  instituted,  maliciously,  vexatiously  or 
without  probable  cause. 

§ 8.  The  police  magistrate,  justice  of  the  peace  and 
other  officers  shall  be  entitled  to  the  same  fees  in  all  cases 
arising  under  the  ordinances  of  said  city  as  are  allowed  to 
justices  of  the  peace  and  constables  in  criminal  cases,  by 
the  laws  of  this  state.  The  officer  making  the  arrest  under 
the  ordinance  of  said  city  without  a warrant,  shall  be 
entitled  to  the  same  fee  as  though  he  had  made  the  arrest 
with  a warrant ; Provided^  however,  that  where  the  officer 
executing  process  or  making  arrests  is  paid  a salary  by  the 
city,  the  fees  taxed  as  his  costs  shall  be  paid  into  the  city 
treasury  by  the  police  magistrate  or  justice  of  the  peace 
taxing  the  same.  And  when  the  costs  are  not  paid  by  the 
defendant,  in  money,  the  city,  and  not  the  officer,  will 
receive  the  credit  for  such  fees. 

§ 9 It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  magistrate  or 
justice  of  the  peace  through  the  chief  of  police  or  other 
officer,  to  inform  the  city  attorney  of  any  and  all  com- 
plaints or  affidavits  made  before  them  for  a violation  of 
any  ordinance  of  said  city,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to 


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appear  on  behalf  of  the  city  when  necessary,  and  prosecute 
all  suits  commenced  for  a breach  of  any  ordinance. 

§ 10.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  magistrate  or  justice 
of  the  peace  when  called  upon  to  act  as  a police  court  in 
the  hearing  and  disputation  of  all  cases  arising  under  this 
chapter  which  may  be  brought  before  him  from  the  bride- 
well, or  otherwise. 

§ 11.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  police  magistrate  or 
justice  of  the  peace  to  make  a report  of  the  fines  assessed 
and  collected  by  them  or  either  of  them,  and  also  report 
when  said  fines  have  been  worked  out  on  the  streets,  alleys 
and  sidewalks,  and  present  the  same  monthly  to  the  city 
council  of  the  said  city  of  Joliet,  and  to  pay  the  money  so 
collected  into  the  city  treasury i and  also  to  present  with 
each  and  every  such  report  the  receipt  of  the  city  treasurer 
for  the  amount  of  fines  so  collected  and  paid  in. 

§ 12.  Any  police  magistrate  or  justice  of  the  peace 
who  shall  fail  to  make  his  report  as  required  by  this  chapter 
shall  be  fined 'in  a sum  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 13.  That  no  costs  shall  be  allowed  to  any  justice  of 
the  peace  of  the  city  of  Joliet  in  any  suit  or  proceeding 
instituted  or  tried  before  such  justice  of  the  peace,  in  the 
name  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  unless  the  commencement  of 
such  suit  or  proceeding  be  authorized  and  ordered  by  the 
proper  city  officer  or  officers. 


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CHAPTER  XXXVII. 

PORTERS  AND  .RUNNERS. 

Sko  1.  To  be  licensed. 

2.  Keepers  of  hotels  may  have  license  revoked  . 

3.  To  procure  license- 
To  -wear  a badge . 

4.  To  first  procure  a license. 

.'i.  Not  to  use  deceit,  etc- 

6.  Fees  for  carrying. 

7,  Not  to  make  noise  and  disturbance. 

8,  Maj’  be  arrested;  further  powers. 

9.  Penalty  for  violation. 

Section  1 . That  any  person  of  good  moral  character, 
on  application  to  the  mayor,  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  a 
license  to  act  as  public  porter  or  runner,  upon  his  execut- 
ing for  the  use  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  a bond  with  two  or 
more  good  and  sufficient  sureties,  to  be  approved  by  the 
mayor,  in  the  penal  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars,  conditioned 
to  observe  and  keep  all  ordinances  on  this  subject,  and 
upon  the  payment  of  the  sum  of  three  dollars  per  annum 
in  addition  thereto;  Provided^  That  all  licenses  issued  or 
granted  under  this  chapter  shall  expire  or  be  renewed  on 
the  first  day  of  September  in  each  and  every  year. 

§ 2.  The  keeper  or  keepers  ot  any  public  house  or  hotel 
who  shall  have  obtained  a license  for  any  porter  or  runner 
in  his,  her  of  their  employ  may,  at  his,  her  or  their 
option,  have  the  same  revoked,  and  be  entitled  to  another 
for  the  remaining  portion  of  the  year,  for  which  such 
license  shall  originally  have  been  granted  without  additional 
ihQVQiov Provided^  That  no  such  license  shall  be 
changed  or  transferred  to  any  other  hotel  or  public  house, 
without  an  order  from  the  mayor  or  city  council  for.  that 
purpose  first  had  and  obtained,  and  each  and  every  keeper 


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or  proprietor  of  any  such  hotel  or  public  house,  shall  be 
personally  liable  for  each  and  every  violation  of  this  chap- 
ter or  any  clause  thereof,  when  committed  by  any  porter 
or  runner  in  his,  her  or  their  employ,  or  who  shall  be  act- 
ing under  the  license  granted  to  any  such  hotel  or  public 
house,  keeper  or  proprietor  or  either  of  them  for  the  use 
of  such  hotel  or  public  house. 

§ 3.  No  person  shall  act  as  public  porter  or  runner, 
either  for  himselt,  or  any  hotel,  or  public  house,  or  in  any 
manner  act  in  that  capacity,  or  ask  the  patronage  or  cus- 
tom of  any  traveler  or  any  other  person  for  any  public 
house,  hotel,  railroad  depot  or  station,  transportation 
company,  or  other  place  of  business,  of  the  person  or  per- 
sons, company  or  line  of  corporation,  by  whom  he  shall  be 
employed,  unless  he  shall  first  obtain  a license,  or  be  fur- 
nished with  one  by  the  person  or  persons  for  whom  he  is  . 
acting,  according  to  the  provisions  hereof;  he  shall  also, 
when  so  acting  as  public  porter  or  runner  as  aforesaid, 
wear  conspicuously  in  front  of  his  hat  or  cap,  or  breast, 
a badge  with  the  name  of  the  public  house,  or  other  place 
for  which  he  is  acting,  with  the  number  of  his  license 
painted  or  engraved  thereon,  in  legible  characters  or  let- 
ters, not  less  than  five-eighths  of  an  inch  in  length  tor 
each  character  or  figure. 

§ 4.  No  person  shall  at  any  railroad  depot  or  station,  or 
other  place  in  the  city,  ask  or  solicit  any  traveler  or  other 
person  or  persons,  to  ride  in  or  use  any  hackney  coach,  cab, 
omnibus  or  other  vehicle  which  runs  for  hire  and  for  the 
conveyance  of  passengers,  unless  he  or  they  shall  have  a 
license  for  that  purpose  first  had  and  obtained;  Provided^ 
that, nothing  herein  contained  is  intended  to  prevent  the 
owners  or.  licensed  drivers  of  any  hackney  coach,  cab  or 


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omnibus,  from  notifying  any  person  tliat  his  hackney 
coach,  cab  or  omnibus  is  licensed  and  runs  for  hire  for  the 
conveyance  of  passengers. 

§ 5.  Xo  porter  or  runner  shall  at  any  time  or  place 
make  use  of  any  device,  deceit,  imposition  or  false  repre- 
sentation, in  relation  to  the  change  of  fare,  character,  cus- 
tom or  location  of  any  public  house  or  hotel,  private  house, 
street,  place  of  business,  locality  or  number  whatever,  in 
said  city,  or  in  relation  to  the  time  or  place  of  the  arrival 
or  departure  of  any  stage,  railroad  car  or  train,  or  other 
conveyance,  to  any  stranger,  non-resident  or  citizen,  or  in 
any  other  manner  use  any  deceit  as  to  the  arrival  or  depar- 
ture of  any  stage,  railroad  car  or  train,  or  other  convey- 
ance, or  as  to  any  locality,  place,  name  or  number,  or  be 
guilty  of  any  misrepresentation  or  evil  practice  toward 
any  emigrant  or  other  person. 

§ 6.  Public  porters  shall  be  entitled  for  each  trunk  or 
package  which  they  may  carry,  fifteen  cents  for  any  dis- 
tance not  exceeding  one-fourth  of  a mile,  and  twenty-live 
cents  for  any  distance  exceeding  one-fourth  of  a mile,  and 
no  public  porter  shall  demand  or  exact  any  greater  sums 
than  are  herein  permitted. 

§ 7 Xo  porter  shall  at  any  time  or  place,  when  engaged 
in  his  employment,  make  any  unusual  noise  or  disturbance, 
or  make  use  of  profane,  obscene  or  boisterous  language,  or 
use  any  language  or  be  guilty  of  an  act  calculated  to  dis- 
turb strangers  or  citizens. 

§ 8 The  mayor,  any  alderman,  policeman,  chief  of 
police  or  any  other  conservators  of  the  peace,  or  member 
of  the  police  under  his  directions,  shall  have  power  to 
arrest  and  commit  any  porter  or  runner  for  examination, 
who  shall  be  engaged  in  the  commission  of  any  act  prohib- 


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ited  by  this  chapter.  They  shall  also  have  power  to  give 
any  directions  which  may  be  required  for  the  preservatio»n 
of  the  peace,  or  the  convenience  of  the  public  at  any  rail- 
road termination,  and  no  person  shall  refuse  to  obey  any 
such  direction,  or  shall  resist  such  officer  in  the  discharge 
of  any  duty. 

§ 9.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  section  or  any 
clause  or  provision  of  this  chapter,  or  shall  fail  to  perform 
any  act  or  thing  required  hereby  shall  on  conviction,  be 
fined  in  a sum  of  money  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more 
than  one  hundred  dollars,  and  may  be  imprisoned  in  the 
city  bridewell  for  the  space  of  not  exceeding  ninety  days 
at  hard  labor,  or  both,  in  the  discretion  of  the  court  before 
whom  such  conviction  shall  be  had ; and  if  eommitted  by 
any  such  licensed  porter  or  runner  herein  provided  for,  his 
license  may  be  revoked,  in  the  discretion  of  the  mayer. 


CHAPTER  XXXVIII. 

PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 

Skc.  1 . Penalty  for  injuring  or  destroying  books  or  papers. 

2.  Penalty  for  injuring  grounds,  buildings  or  fixtures. 

3.  Penalty  for  failing  to  return  books  of  libmry . 

4.  Fines  collected,  how  applied. 

Section  1.  That  any  person  who  shall  willfully  or  mal- 
iciously cut,  write  upon,  injure,  deface,  tear  or  destroy 
any  book,  newspaper,  plate,  picture,  engraving  or  statue, 
belonging  to  the  Public  Library^  shall  be  liable  to  a 

fine  of  not  less  than  three  dollars,  nor  more  than  fifty  dol- 
lars for  every  such  offense. 

§ 2.  Any  person  who  shall  willfully  or  maliciously 
commit  any  injury  upon  the  Joliet  Public  Library,  or  upon 


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the  oTouncIs,  buildings,  furniture,  fixtures  or  other  prop- 
erty belonging  to,  or  in  possession  of  said  library,  shall  be 
liable  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than 
one  hundred  dollars  for  every  such  offense. 

§ 3.  Any  person  who  shall  fail  to  return  any  book 
belonging  to  the  Joliet  Public  Library,  according  to  the 
requirements  of  the  by-laws,  rules  or  regulations  made  and 
adopted  by  the  directors  of  such  library,  for  the  govern- 
ment thereof,  shall  be  liable  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  three 
dollars  nor  more  than  ten  dollars  for  every  such  oflense. 

§ 4.  All  fines  collected  by  virtue  of  this  chapter,  shall 
be  paid  into  the  city  treasury  to  the  credit  and  benefit  of 
the  library  fund,  unless  otherwise  provided  by  law. 


CHAPTER  XXXIX. 


RAILKOADS. 

Sec.  1.  Duty  of  Chicago,  Rock  Island  & Pacific  R.  R.  Co. 

2.  Duty  of  Chicago,  Alton  & St.  Louis  R.  R.  Co. 

3.  Duty  of  Michigan  Central  R.  R.  Co. 

4.  Duty  of  flag  and  gatemen. 

5.  Penalty  for  violation . 

6.  Speed  of  locomotives. 

7.  Stopping  or  remaining  on  streets. 

8.  Whistling. 

9.  Opening  of  cylinder  cocks. 

10.  Penaltv  for  violation. 

11.  Penalty  for  getting  on  cars  in  motion. 

12.  Unlawful  for  the  C.  R.  I.  & P.  R.  R.  Co.  to  remain,  etc. 

13.  Penalty  for  violation . 

14.  Repealing  Sec.  3,  chap.  36, 1’evised  ordinances,  1859. 

15.  Procedure  for  the  erection  of  gates,  etc. 

16.  Railroad  companies  to  erect  and  maintain,  penalty. 

17.  Gates,  etc.,  to  be  erected  and  maintained  at  sole  cost  of  raiN 

road. 


Section  1.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Chicago, 
Rock  Island  and  Pacific  railroad  company  to  erect  and 
maintain,  at  its  own  expense,  gates  at  the  following  points 


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where  the  tracks  of  said  railroad  company  cross  streets  of 
the  city,  and  keep  at  each  of  such  crossings  a gate  tender, 
to  wit:  At  the  Railroad  or  Bluff  street  crossing  from  7 A. 
M.  till  8 P.  M.  each  day;  at  the  Joliet,  Ottawa,  Washing- 
ton, Chicago  and  Scott  street  crossings,  from  6 A.  M.  till 
8 P.  M.  each  day;  at  the  Jefferson  street  crossing  at  all 
times  both  day  and  night;  at  the  Eastern  avenue,  Collins 
street  and  Herkimer  street  crossings  from  7 A.  M.  till  8 
P.  M.  each  day. 

§ 2.  4 hat  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Chicago,  Alton  and 

St.  Louis  railroad  company  to  erect  and  maintain,  at  its 
own  expense,  gates  at  the  following  points  where  the 
tracks  of  said  railroad  company  cross  streets  of  the  city, and 
keep  at  each  of  such  crossings  a gate  tender,  to-wit : At 

the  Jefferson  and  Cass  street  crossinofs  at  all  times  both 
day  and  night ; at  the  Washington  street  crossing  from 

6 A.  M.  till  8 P.  M.  of  each  day;  at  the  intersection  of 
Eastern  avenue  and  Fourth  avenue  from  6 A.  M.  till  10  P. 
M. ; at  the  Jackson  and  Clinton  street  crossings  from  6 A. 
M,  till  8 P.  M. 

§ 3.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Michigan  Central 
railroad  company  to  station,  keep  and  maintain  at  its  own 
expense  gates  and  gate  tenders  at  the  point  where  said 
railroad  crosses  Eastern  avenue  at  all  times  both  day  and 
night ; also  where  said  line  crosses  Washington  street  from 

7 A.  M.  till  7 P.  M. ; also  where  said  line  crosses  at  the  in- 
tersection of  Jefferson  and  Collins  streets  from  7 A.  M.  till 

8 P.  M. ; also  where  said  line  crosses  Herkimer  street  from 
7 A.  M.  till  7 P.  M. 

§ 4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  flagmen  or  gate  tenders 
of  the  above  railroads,  by  means  of  a flag  in  the  day  time, 
and  a colored  light  at  night,  to  warn  all  teams  or  vehicles 


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of  any  nature,  and  all  or  any  persons,  of  the  approach  of 
any  engine  or  engines,  car  or  trains  of  cars  approaching  in 
the  direction  of  said  crossing  on  the  line  of  said  railroads. 

§ 5.  For  every  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  the 
foregoing  sections  of  this  chapter,  the  corporation  or  cor- 
porations, person  or  persons  so  violating  the  same,  shall  be 
subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than 
two  hundred  dollars,  to  be  recovered  in  any  court  of  com- 
petent jurisdiction,  in  an  action  of  debt,  and  each  three 
days  said  railroad  companies  fail,  neglect  or  refuse  to  com- 
ply with  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  shall  be  held  and 
taken  to  be  a separate  offense. 

§ 6.  That  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  railroad  con- 
ductor, engineer,  or  any  other  of  their  employes  or  agents 
to  cause  or  permit  the  running  of  locomotives,  or  passen- 
ger, freight  or  other  trains  at  a greater  speed  than  six 
miles  per  hour  within  the  city  limits. 

§ 7.  That  no  railroad  company,  railroad  engineer  or 
train  conductor,  or  other  person  shall  cause  or  allow  any 
locomotive,  railroad  passenger  car,  or  freight  car,  or  other 
railroad  cars  to  stop  on,  or  remain  upon  any  streets  within 
said  city,  longer  than  five  minutes,  (except  as  provided  in 
section  7,  chapter  37,  revised  ordinances  1869,)  at  any  one 
time,  and  then  only  when  it  is  absolutely  necessary  to  pre- 
vent accidents,  except  in  case  of  accidents  or  injury  to  per- 
son or  property. 

§ 8.  That  no  railroad  com  pany  shall  cause  or  allow  the 
whistle  of  any  locomotive  engine  to  be  sounded  within  the 
city,  except  necessary  brake  signals  and  such  as  may  be 
absolutely  necessary  to  prevent  injury  to  persons  and  to 
property  other  than  their  own,  and  that  in  their  possession 
as  freight. 


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§ 9.  No  railroad  company  shall  cause  or  allow  the  cyl- 
inder cock  or  cocks  of  any  or  either  of  their  several  loco- 
motive  engines  to  be  opened  so  as  to  permit  steam  to  escape 
therefrom  at  any  time  while  running  upon  or  along  any 
railroad  track  laid  in  any  street,  or  when  the  engine  is  in 
immediate  proximity  to  any  street  or  railroad  crossing  in 
said  city:  Provided,  however,  that  when  such  engine  shall 
be  standing  at  such  point  in  said  city,  and  for  three  revolu- 
tions of  the  driving  wheel  after  being  put  in  motion,  the 
said  cocks  may  be  opened  for  the  purpose  ot  allowing  con- 
densed steam  to  escape. 

§ 10.  Any  railroad  corporation,  railroad  company,  rail- 
road engineer,  train  conductor,  or  person  violating  or  fail- 
ing to  observe  any  ot  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  shall, 
for  each  violation  of,  or  failure  to  observe  the  same,  be  fined 
in  a sum  not  less  than  ten  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred 
dollars,  to  be  recovered  before  any  court  of  competent  ju- 
risdiction. 

§ 11.  No  person  not  in  the  employ  of  any  railroad  com- 
pany shall,  while  any  locomotive  engine  or  train  of  cars 
are  in  motion,  within  the  limits  of  said  city,  get  on  or  take 
hold  of  any  part  of  said  engine  or  train,  or  get  on  at  any 
depot  or  crossing  with  the  intention  of  getting  off  again  at 
any  other  point  in  said  city,  without  the  express  permis- 
sion of  the  engineer  or  conductor,  under  a penalty  of  five 
dollars,  and  it  is  hereby  strictly  enjoined  on  every  officer 
of  the  city  to  see  to  it  that  this  chapter  is  strictly  enforced. 

§ 12.  That  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  the  Chicago,  Eock 
Island  and  Pacific  railroad  company  or  any  of  its  agents 
or  employes,  or  any  railroad  company,  its  agents  or  em- 
ployes to  allow  any  locomotive,  engine  or  cars  of  whatso- 
ever kind  or  description  to  encumber  or  remain  upon  the 


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railroad  track  laid  upon  public  grounds^dedicated  as  “pub- 
lic grounds’’  by  James  B.  Campbell,  known  as  the  Court 
House  Square,  or  upon  public  grounds  dedicated  as  “pub- 
lic grounds”  by  Albert  W.  Bowen,  and  known  as  the  Jail 
Square,  for  a longer  time  than  five  minutes. 

§ 13.  Any  railroad  company  or  its  agents,  or  employes, 
violating  the  provisions  of  Section  Twelve  of  this  chapter 
shall  be  fined  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  two 
dollars  for  each  and  every  offense,  and  fifty  dollars  per 
hour  for  each  and  every  hour  said  public  ground  shall  re- 
main obstructed  after  conviction  of  the  offense. 

§ 14.  That  Section  Three  of  chapter  thirty-six  of  the 
revised  ordinances  of  1869,  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  entitled 
“an  ordinance  concerning  right  of  way,  etc.,  of  Chicago, 
Kock  Island  and  Pacific  railroad  compeny,”  and  all  ordi- 
nances in  conflict  herewith  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  re- 
pealed. 

§ 15.  Whenever,  on  any  street  crossed  by  the  track  or 
tracks  of  any  railroad  company,  the  city  council  shall  deem 
it  necessary  to  require  said  railroad  company  to  provide 
protection  against  injury  to  persons  and  property  at  such 
crossings  by  the  erection  and  maintenance  of  gates,  guards 
or  other  protection,  or  the  construction  of  a viaduct,  said 
city  council  may,  by  ordinance,  so  declare  and  direct  that 
any  such  railroad  coinpau}^  shall,  within  a certain  time,  to 
be  fixed  by  the  city  council  erect,  construct  and  maintain 
a sufficient  safeguard  at  such  classing,  specifying  the  kind 
of  protection  to  be  erected,  constructed  and  maintained 
as  aforesaid,  whether  it  be  a gate  or  gates,  or  viaduct  or 
other  efficient  protection ; and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
superintendent  of  streets  to  serve  upon  the  said  railroad 
company  named  in  said  ordinance,  a certified  copy  thereof 


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within  thirty  days  after  the  passage  of  said  ordinance, 
and  at  the  same  time  to  notify  the  said  railroad  company, 
in  writing,  of  the  time  fixed  by  the  city  council  within 
which  the  protection  so  ordered  shall  be  constructed. 

§ 16.  Whenever  any  railroad  company  shall  have  been 
directed  by  the  city  council  to  erect,  construct  and  main- 
tain at  any  street  crossed  by  said  track  or  tracks,  any  gate 
or  gates,  viaduct  or  other  protection,  as  provided  in  the 
last  preceding  section,  every  such  company  shall,  within 
the  time  prescribed  erect,  construct  and  thereafter  main- 
tain the  protection  specified  in  said  ordinance,  under  the 
penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  two 
hundred  dollars  for  every  offense,  and  for  each  and  every 
three  days  after  the  expiration  of  the  time  so  fixed  for  the 
construction  of  such  protection,  any  such  company  that 
shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  proceed  to  the  erection  and  con- 
struction of  the  kind  of  protection  specified  in  such  ordi- 
nance, shall  constitute  a new  and  distinct  offense. 

§ 17.  Every  such  gate,  guard,  viaduct  and  the  ap- 
proaches thereto,  or  other  protection  when  so  ordered  as 
aforesaid,  shall  be  erected  and  constructed  at  the  sole  cost 
and  expense  of  said  railroad  company,  under  the  supervi- 
sion of  the  superintendent  of  streets,  aud  the  same  shall 
forever  and  thereafter  be  kept  and  maintained  by  such  rail- 
road company  in  proper  care  and  condition,  at  its  own 
costand  expense,  and  without  expense  or  cost  to  the  city 
of  Joliet,  under  the  supervision  of  the  superintendent  of 
streets  and  to  his  satisfaction. 


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CHAPTER  XL. 

SCAVENGEES. 


Sec  1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 

8. 


11. 


14. 

15. 


To  be  licensed. 

Penalty— permits,  how  granted. 

License,  how  granted,  and  cost. 

Permits  to  be  obtained  from  the  Board  of  Health. 

Make  return  to  Board  of  Health. 

Work  to  be  done  in  an  inotfensive  manner. 

Contents  of  vaults  to  be  conveyed  beyond  the  city  limits. 
Wagon  to  be  painted  and  numbered. 

Vaults  not  to  be  cleaned  during  day  time. 

Amounts  allowed  to  be  sharged. 

When  health  otilcer  to  notify  owner  of  pidvy  vaults. 

In  case  owner  not  found  in  city. 

Engaging  in  the  business  without  license,  penalty. 

Board  of  Health  to  cause  notices  to  be  left,  etc.. 

Refusal  after  notice  served. 


Section  1.  The  mayor  of  the  city  shall,  from  time  to 
time,  grant  licenses  to  any  person,  company  or  corpora- 
tion, to  engage  in  the  business  of  emptying,  cleaning  or 
removing  the  contents  of  privy  vaults;  and  every'  person, 
company  or  corporation  engaged  in  said  business,  shall  be 
deemed  a night  scavenger  within  the  meaning  of  this 
chapter. 


§ 2.  No  person,  company  or  corporation  within  the 
city  of  Joliet,  shall  empty,  clean  or  remove  the  contents  of 
any  privo  vault,  or  in  any  manner  engaged  in  the  business 
of  night  scavenger,  without  first  having  obtained  a license 
so  to  do  under  the  penelty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  for 
each  offense;  Provided^  that  the  owners,  occupants  or 
agents  of  privy  vaults  within  the  city  desiring  to  clean  and 
remove  the  contents  thereof  themselves,  without  the  aid 
of  night  scavengers,  may  be  allowed  to  do  so  upon  the 
written  permission  of  the  mayor  or  board  of  health,  and 


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then  only  in  such  a manner  as  he  or  they  in  said  permit 
shall  direct. 

§ 3.  Every  person,  company  or  corporation  applying 
for  such  licenses,  shall  pay  to  the  city  clerk  the  sum  of  five 
dollars,  and  execute  a bond  to  the  city  in  the  penal  sum  of 
five  hundred  dollars,  with  not  less  than  two  sureties  to  be 
approved  by  the  mayor,  conditioned  that  said  scavenger 
will  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  and 
every  ordinance  which  may  be  hereafter  passed  by  the  city 
council  touching  their  said  employment,  and  will  also 
comply  with  and  obey  the  directions  and  regulation  of  the 
board  of  health  of  the  city  made  in  persuance  of  the  law. 

§ 4.  No  licensed  person,  company  or  corporation  with- 
in the  city  of  Joliet  shall  remove  or  cause  to  be  removed, 
the  contents  of  any  privy  vault  without  a permit  first  ob- 
tained from  the  board  of  health,  under  the  penalty  of  not 
less  than  five  dollars  for  each  offense.  Every  such  permit 
shall  give  the  name  of  the  scavenges,  describe  the  premises 
where  the  work  is  to^  be  done,  and  state  where  the  contents 
thereof  shall  be  deposited. 

§ 5.  Each  scavenger  shall  make  return  to  the  board  of 
health,  of  every  permit  issued  to  him,  within  five  days 
after  the  work  shall  have  been  performed,  certifying  to  the 
number  of  yards  or  loads  removed  from  the  vault  or  vaults 
therein  described,  and  the  place  where  the  same  was  depos- 
ited, under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  for 
each  offense. 

§ 6.  The  cleaning,  emptying  and  removing  of  the  con- 
tents of  privy  vaults  shall  be  done  in  an  inoffensive  manner, 
and  any  scavenger  having  begun  any  such  scavanger-work 
shall,  without  any  interruption  or  delay,  finish  the  same, 
and  shall  in  every  instance  leave  the  privy  in  as  good  con- 


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261 


ditioii  upon  the  vault  as  when  the  work  was  undertaken. 

§ 7.  The  contents  of  privy  vaults  so  removed  by  any 
scavenger  shall  be  conveyed  beyond  the  city  limits  in  air- 
tight tanks  or  vessels,  and  shall  be  disposed  of  in  such  a 
manner  as  to  cause  no  offense,  said  tanks  or  vessels  shall 
be  kept  clean  and  inoffensive  when  not  in  actual  use. 

§ 8.  Scavengers  who  engage  in  the  business  of  remov- 
ing the  contents  of  privy  vaults  at  night,  shall  cause  to  be 
painted  upon  the  wagon  box  of  their  wagons,  in  letters 
and  figures,  their  names  and  the  number  of  their  licenses, 
together  with  a lighted  lamp  with  plain  glass  fronts  and 
sides,  with  the  number  of  the  license  of  such  wagon  painted 
with  black  paint  on  the  sides  and  front  of  each  of  said 
lamps,  in  distinct  and  legible  figures,  at  least  two  inches 
in  size,  and  so  placed  that  said  lamps  may  be  distinctly 
seen,  and  said  num])er  easily  read. 

§ 9.  No  privy  vault  shall  be  opened  nor  the  contents 
thereof  disturbed  or  removed  between  the  hours  of  six 
o’clock  A,  M.  and  ten  o’clock  P.  M.  of  any  day,  nor  shall 
such  contents  be  deposited  or  buried  within  the  city,  ex- 
cept upon  the  permission  of  the  board  of  health  of  said  city 
and  in  such  manner  and  places  as  shall  be  by  them  directed. 
And  if  any  night  scavenger  shall  not  bury  said  contents  as 
above  provided,  and  cover  the  same  so  as  to  prevent  any 
smell  arising  therefrom,  his  license  shall  immediately  be 
forfeited  and  annulled.  Any  person  violating  any  provis- 
ion of  this  section  shall  be  subject  to  the  penalty  of  not 
less  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 10.  Night  scavengers  shall  be  allowed  to  charge  and 
receive  fv^r  each  load  so  by  them  taken  and  removed,  of  not 
less  than  twenty-seven  cubic  feet,  a sum  not  exceeding  five 
dollars  for  each  and  every  load  so  removed. 


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§ 11.  Whenever,  in  the  opinion  of  the  board  of  health 
or  health  officer,  any  privy  vault  shall  be  offensive  and 
need  cleaning,  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  notify  the  owner, 
agent  or  occupant  to  cleanse  the' same  within  a period 
named  in  said  notice,  and  unless  the  person  so  notified  shall 
comply  within  the  time  mentioned,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
said  officer  to  cause  said  vault  to  be  cleaned  by  one  or  more 
of  the  city  scavengers  aforesaid,  and  such  person  failing  to 
comply  with  said  notice,  shall,  on  conviction,  be  fined  in  a 
sum  not  less  than  twenty  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hun- 
dred dollars.  Provided^  that  nothing  in  this  section  con- 
tained shall  discharge  the  owner,  agent  or  occupant  of  the 
premises  from  any  liability  otherwise  provided,  to  pay  all 
the  expenses  of  such  cleaning. 

§ 12.  In  case  no  owner  or  agent  can  be  found  in  the 
city,  such  officers  shall  cause  such  offensive  vault  to  be 
cleaned,  and  in  either  case  the  expense  shall  be  collected  as 
in  other  cases  of  the  removal  or  abatement  of  nuisances. 

§ 13.  Any  person  without  license  as  aforesaid,  who  shall 
engage  in  business  as  night  scavenger,  or  who  shall  under- 
take to  remove  any  contents  ot  any  privy  vault  within  the 
city  without  license  or  permit,  as  aforesaid,  shall,  on  con- 
viction thereof,  pay  a fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars,  or 
more  than  fifty  for  each  offense ; and  any  night  scavenger 
so  as  aforesaid  licensed,  or  owner,  agent  or  occupant,  so  as 
aforesaid  acting  under  permit  as  aforesaid,  who  shall  fail  to 
comply  with  any  order,  direction  or  regulation  of  the 
board  of  health,  or  who  shall  violate  any  provision  or  sec- 
tion, or  clause  of  any  provision  or  section  of  this  chapter 
where  no  other  penalty  is  imposed,  shall,  on  conviction 
thereof,  pay^  a fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  and  shall, 


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at  the  discretion  of  the  mayor  of  the  city  ot  Joliet,  forfeit 
his  license. 

§ 14.  The  board  of  health  shall  cause  a printed  notice 
to  be  left  at  each  and  every  hotel,  tavern,  eating  house  and 
dwelling  house  in  the  city,  stating  that  a scavenger  will 
call  for  offal,  garbage,  swill  (and  on  improved  streets, 
ashes]  at  certain  times  mentioned  in  the  notice,  and  requir- 
ing such  offal,  garbage,  swill,  [and  on  improved  streets, 
ashes]  be  ready  in  suitable  vessels  for  the  scavenger  when 
he  calls  for  the  same.  A copy  of  Section  Fifteen  of  this 
chapter  shall  be  appended  to  such  notice. 

§ 15.  Any  person  who  shall,  after  notice,  neglect  or  re- 
fuse to  have  the  offal,  garbage  or  swill,  upon  his  or  her 
premises,  ready  for  the  scavenger  in  the  manner  and  at  the 
time  mentioned  in  said  notice,  shall  pay  a penalty  of  three 
dollars  for  each  and  every  day  such  offal,  garbage  or  swill 
shall  remain  on  such  premises  after  the  same  has  been 
called  for  by  tlie  scavenger.  Said  scavenger  shall  be  al- 
lowed to  charge  and  receive  for  each  load  of  such  offal,  gar- 
bage or  swill  so  by  them  them  taken,  a sum  not  exceeding 
one  dollar. 


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CHAPTER  XLI* 

SCHOOLS. 

Sec  1.  Division  of  city  into  districts. 

2.  District  No.  1 extent  of. 

3.  District  No.  2,  extent  of. 

4.  Schools  to  be  maintained. 

5.  Children  under  five  and  over  twenty-one. 

6.  How  maintained,  teachers  how  paid. 

Tax  levied  to  defmy  expense  of  schools. 

7.  Teachers  to  keep  schedules. 

8.  Board  of  school  inspectors,  establish  rules. 

9.  Meeting  of  inspectors,  proviso. 

10.  School  inspectors  to  have  entire  control  of  schools. 

11.  Inspectors  to  adopt  a System  of  schools. 

12.  Board  to  fix  compensation  of  teachers,  subject  to. 

IS.  To  have  well  bound  books,  keep  record. 

14.  To  report  to  city  council. 

15.  Duty  of  teachers  to  hold  institutes. 

16.  Board  to  report  to  council. 

17.  Claims  audited  by  boai*d,  and  filed  with  city  clerk. 

18.  Board  to  report  to  state  superintendent. 

19  Board  to  present  to  the  council  reQuisitions  for  printing. 

20.  To  report  tuition  fees  every  three  months  and  pay  same  to  treasurer.  . 

Section  1.  That  the  city  of  Joliet  shall  be  divided  into 
two  school  districts,  as  follows:  all  that  part  of  said  city 
lying  west  of  the  Desplaines  river  shall  constitute  district 
No.  1,  and  all  that  part  of  said  city  lying  east  of  the  said 
river  shall  constitute  district  No.  2. 

§ 2.  District  No.  1,  in  addition  to  that  part  ot  the  ter- 
ritory within  the  city  limits,  west  of  the  Desplains  river, 
shall  comprise  that  part  of  section  three  west  of  the  Des- 
plaines river,  section  four  (4),  and  the  southeast  quarter  of 
section  five  (5),  town  thirty-five  (35),  north  of ‘range  ten 
(10),  east  of  the  third  principal  meridian. 

§ 3.  District  No.  2,  in  addition  to  that  part  of  the  terri- 
tory within  the  city  limits  east  of  the  Desplaines  river  shall 
comprise  section  two  (2),  that  part  of  section  three  (3) 
east  of  the  Desplaines  river,  the  west  half  of  section  eleven 


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265 


(11),  the  east  half  of  the  east  half  of  section  ten  (10),  and 
that  part  of  the  south  half  of  section  fifteen,  south  and 
east  of  Hickory  creek,  (except  the  southeast  quarter  of  the 
southeast  quarter,  and  except  that  part  of  the  north  half 
lying  east  of  Spring  and  Hickory  creeks,)  and  that  part  of 
the  northeast  quarter  of  section  twenty-one  (21),  lying  east 
of  the  St.  Louis  railroad,  in  town  thirty-five,  north  of  range 
ten  east  of  third  principal  meridian. 

§ 4.  There  shall  be  established  and  maintained  in  the 
city  a sufficient  number  of  common  schools  to  provide  in- 
struction to  all  the  children  thereof  over  the  age  of  five, 
and  under  the  age  of  twenty-one  years ; and  there  shall  be 
at  least  one  such  school  in  each  district  now  or  hereafter 
to  be  created,  and  all  of  said  schools  shall  be  free  to  all 
children  of  suitable  .ages,  within  their  respective  districts. 

§ 5.  Children  under  five  or  over  twenty-one  years  of 
age,  and  those  not  belonging  in  the  district  shall  not  be 
admitted  into  the  common  schools  of  either  of  the  districts 
of  the  city,  except  upon  such  terms  as  may  be  prescribed 
by  the  board  of  school  inspectors,  or  with  the  written  per- 
mission of  said  board. 

§ 6.  All  the  common  schools  of  this  city  shall  be  sup- 
ported at  the  public  expense.  The  teachers  of  said  schools 
shall  be  paid  out  of  that  portion  of  the  interest  or  income 
which  the  city  of  Joliet,  or  the  schools  or  scholars  therein 
are,  or  may  be  hereafter,  by  law  entitled  to  receive  of  the 
school  fund,  by  law  appropriated  to  the  payment  of  teach- 
ers for  township  35  N.  R.  10  east,  and  the  balance  (if  any 
there  be)  due  teachers  over  and  above  the  sum  paid  by  such 
interest  luud,  together  with  all  other  expenses  necessary 
for  the  proper  management  and  support  of  the  common 
schools  of  said  city,  shall  be  paid  to  the  order  of  the  board 


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of  school  iiispectors‘  out  of  a fund  to  be  raised  for  that  pur- 
pose by  tax  on  all  the  taxable  property  in  said  city  and 
school  districts.  And  all  taxes  collected  and  paid  into  the 
city  treasury  for  school  purposes  shall  be  kept  as  a sepa- 
rate and  distinct  fund,  for  the  support  of  schools  exclu- 
sively. 

§ 7.  All  teachers  of  common  schools  in  the  said  city 
shall  keep  a schedule  of  the  number  of  scholars  attending 
school,  as  now  required  by  law,  and  the  money  in  the 
hands  of  the  treasurer  of  the  trustees  of  schools,  for  town- 
ship 35,  N.  R.  10  E.,  or  so  much  thereof  as  shall  be  appro- 
priated to  the  school  district  of  said  city,  or  appropriated 
to  their  use,  shall  be  paid  to  the  said  teachers  on  their 
schedules  properly  certified  by  the  school  inspectors  and 
returned  to  the  proper  officer,  in  such  proportion  and 
measure  as  the  statute  provides. 

§ 8.  The  board  of  school  inspectors,  when  organized  by 
electing  from  their  own  number  a chairman  and  secretary, 
may  establish  all  such  laws,  rules  and  regulations  for  their 
own  government,  not  inconsistent  with  their  authority  and 
duties,  as  may  in  their  opinion  be  necessar3^  Said  board 
may  in  their  discretion,  pay  their  secretary  as  remunera- 
tion for  his  services  a sum  not  exceeding  three  hundred 
dollars  per  annum. 

§ 9.  Said  board  shall  meet  regularly  on  the  first  Mon- 
day that  immediately  precedes  the  regular  monthly  meet- 
ing of  the  city  council,  at  the  city  hall^^r  at  such  other 
place  as  may  be  designated  by  the  president  of  the  school 
board  (withourexpense  to  the  city),  for  the  transaction  of 
business.  Special  meetings  may  be  called  at  any  time  at 
the  request  of  the  president  or  any  two  members,  where- 
upon the  secretary  shall  give  seasonable  notice  to  each  of 


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the  inspectors  of  the  time  i^nd  place,  o^  holding  such  meet- 
ing; Provided^  That  no  powers  belonging  to  the  said 
board  shall  be  exercised  thereby,  except  at  meetings  regu- 
larly convened  in  the  manner  above  specified. 

§ 10.  The  board  of  school  inspectors  shall  take  the  en- 
tire superintendence  and  control  of  common  schools  within 
the  city;  shall  employ  all  teachers,  make  necessary  repairs, 
furnish  fuel,  furniture,  and  all  other  things  necessary  for 
the  proper  and  successful  carrying  on  and  maintaining  of 
said  schools;  Provided^  That  no  contract  for  the  employ- 
ment of  teachers  shall  be  binding  until  confirmed  by  the 
city  council,  and  provided  further,  that  no  teacher  shall 
be  employed  to  teach  in  any  of  said  schools  until  he  or  she 
shall  have  exhibited  to  said  board  a certificate  of  qualifica- 
tion of  the  first  or  second  grade,  according  to  the  classes  to 
be  taught  under  the  direction  of  the  school  board,  from  the 
county  superintendent  of  public  instruction  of  Will 
county;  said  board  shall  visit  all  the  public  schools  as 
often  as  once  in  each  month,  for  the  purpose  of  inquiring 
into  the  progress  of  the  scholars,  and  the  government  of 
the  schools ; shall  prescribe  the  studies  to  be  taught,  the 
books  and  apparatus  to  be  used,  and  the  method  of  discip- 
line to  be  pursued,  and  shall  carefully  see  to  it  that  all  the 
schools  are  in  all  respects  maintained  and  managed  in  a 
proper  manner ; that  after  the  present  school 

year,  no  language  except  the  English  shall  be  taught  in 
any  of  the  schools  of  said  district,  except  that  by  the  direc- 
tion of  the  board  of  school  inspectors,  the  Latin  language 
may  be  taught  in  the  high  school  departments,  and  pro- 
vided also,  that  the  same  grade  shall  be  maintained  in  both 
districts  No.  1 and  No.  2 until  otherwise  ordered  by  the 
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§ 11.  The  said  inspectors  shall  have  power  to  adopt  a 
system  of  schools  in  each  district,  consisting  of  different 
grades,  and  assign  suitable  teachers  to  each,  and  to  deter- 
mine what  scholars  are  sufficiently  advanced  to  enter  the 
higher  grades,  judging  by  the  qualifications  alone  of  the 
scholars,  and  also  to  dismiss  or  remove  any  teacher  when- 
ever, from  the  want  of  proper  qualification  or  other  cause, 
the  interest  of  the  school  shall  require  such  removal  or  dis- 
missal, and  all  teachers  shall  be  employed  subject  to  this 
right  and  duty  on  the  part  of  the  board  of  school  inspec- 
tors. 

§ 12.  Said  board  shall  fix  the  compensation  to  be  paid 
to  the  teachers  employed  in  said  schools,  subject  however, 
to  confirmation  by  the  city  council. 

§ 13.  The  said  board  of  inspectors  shall  furnish  them- 
selves with  a well  bound  book,  at  the  expense  of  the  school 
tax  fund,  in  which  shall  be  kept  a faithful  record  of  all 
their  proceedings.  They  shall  also  file  and  preserve  all  the 
vouchers  and  accounts  which  may  be  allowed  by  them, 
and  at  the  expiration  of  their  term  of  office  the  same  shall 
be  lodged  with  the  city  clerk,  and  the  records  be  delivered 
to  their  successors  in  office. 

§ 14.  The  said  board  of  inspectors  shall,  at  the  end  of 
each  term,  report  to  the  city  council  the  condition  of  the 
sch^^ols,  the  progress  and  improvement  made  by  the  pupils, 
and  the  number  taught  in  each  district,  the  amount  of 
teachers"  wages  and  other  expenses,  and  such  other  infor- 
mation as  may  be  important;  and  may  make  suggestions  to 
the  city  council  in  relation  to  the  building  and  furnishing 
of  school  houses,  or  procuring  apparatus  or  libraries,  or 
creating  new  districts,  or  other  matters  which  the  interests 
of  schools  may,  in  their  judgment  require.  And  it  shall  be 


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their  duty  to  report  their  doings,  or  furnish  any  other  in- 
formation relating  to  schools,  to  the  city  council  at  any 
time  when  required  so  to  do. 

§ 15.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  teachers  in  the  public 
schools  of  this  city  to  meet  on  the  second  Saturday  of  every 
month,  under  the  direction  of  the  inspectors,  at  such  place 
in  said  city  as  they  may  designate,  to  hold  a teachers’  in- 
stitute for  their  own  improvement  in  teaching.  All  pub- 
lic schools  shall  be  taught  five  days  in  each  week. 

§ 16.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  school  inspec- 
tors, before  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  year,  to  report  to 
the  city  council  the  amount  which  will  be  required  to  sus- 
tain the  schools  for  the  ensuing  year,  giving  in  detail  the 
items  of  such  expenditure,  which  sum,  if  deemed  reason- 
able and  right  by  the  council, shall  be  exclusively  set  apart 
for  school  purposes  as  soon  as  the  taxes  are  collected ; 
Provided^  That  when  such  sum  is  so  set  apart,  said  board 
shall  expend  no  more  of  said  money  so  set  apart  for  any 
one  item  than  is  appropriated  for  such  item,  unless  the  con- 
sent .of  the  council  shall  be  first  obtained  thereto. 

§ 17.  That  all  claims,  bills,  amounts  and  demands  what- 
soever against  the  city  for  school  supplies,  teachers’  sala- 
ries, furniture,  repairs,  or  in  any  way  connected  with  the 
maintenance  of  schools  shall  be  audited  by  said  board,  and 
when  so  audited  shall  be  certified  by  the  president  of  said 
board  and  the  secretary  thereof,  and  filed  with  the  city 
clerk,  to  be  by  him  presented  to  the  city  council  for  their 
approval,  consideration  or  allowance,  and  when  so  allowed, 
said  bills  shall  be  published  with  the  council  proceedings 
the  same  as  other  bills  against  the  city,  and  paid  by  orders 
drawn  by  the  mayor  and  city  clerk  on  the  proper  fund,  as 
in  other  cases. 


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§ 18.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  school  inspec- 
tors, on  or  before  the  first  Monday  in  October  always  pre- 
ceding each  regular  session  of  the  general  assembly  of  the 
state,  or  annually,  if  required  by  the  state  superintendent, 
to  make  and  enter  a statement  or  report,  to  the  commis- 
sioner of  schools  for  the  county  of  Will,  of  all  such  statis- 
tics and  other  information  in  regard  to  the  public  schools 
of  the  city,  and  an  enumeration  of  children  or  other  per- 
sons as  is  required  to  be  communicated  by  township  boards 
of  trustees  or  directors,  as  is  required  by  law. 

§ 19.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  school  inspec- 
tors, from  time  to  time,  as  required,  to  present  to  the  city 
council,  requisitions  for  any  and  all  printing  that  may  be 
required  by  such  school  board,  and  no  printing  shall 
be  ordered  by  said  school  board  until  said  requisition  has 
been  allowed  by  the  city  council,  and  then  only  the  amount 
so  allowed  by  the  city  council. 

§ 20.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  school  board  to  pay  into 
the  city  treasury  all  moneys  received  by  them  for  tuition 
fees,  and  report  every  three  months  to  the  council  all  such 
tuition  fees  received  by  said  board,  and  said  board  shall 
file  with  each  report  the  receipt  of  the  city  treasurer  for 
the  full  amount  of  such  fees  received  by  them. 


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CHAPTER  XLII. 

SHOWS  AND  EXHIBITIONS. 

Sec.  1.  Managers  of  theatres,  circuses,  etc.  to  obtain  license. 

2.  License  to  be  granted  on  following  terms . 

3.  License  to  opera  house,  etc. 

4.  License  to  specify  the  object. 

5.  Penalty  for  violation. 

6.  Not  to  apply  to  citizens  of  Joliet . 

Section  1.  That  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  or 
persons  to  own,  contract,  or  manage  for  gain  within  the 
city,  any  theatre,  circus,  caravan,  or  other  exhibition,  or 
show  of  amusement,  or  exhibit  any  natural  or  artificial  cu- 
riosities, or  any  panorama  or  other  show  or  device  of  any 
kind,  or  give  any  concert  or  other  musical  entertainment 
without  a license. 

§ 2.  Licenses  may  be  granted  for  the  purpose  contem- 
plated in  this  ordinance,  upon  the  following  terms  and  con- 
ditions, to  wit: 

First.  To  circus  companies,  their  managers  or  agents,to 
exhibit  for  one  day,  not  less  than  fifty  dollars,  nor  more  than 
one  hundred  dollars;  two  days,  one  hundred  dollars,  and 
twenty-five  dollars  per  day  for  every  day  after  two  days. 
Side-shows,  ten  dollars  per  day  for  each  show. 

Second,  To  managers  or  agents  of  theatres,  shows ,man- 
ageries,  concerts  or  exhibitions,  performances  or  entertain- 
ments of  any  kind,  whatever,  as  contemplated  in  this  chap- 
ter, for  the  sum  of  two  dollars  to  ten  dollars  for  each  and 
every  day  such  person  shall  exhibit,  perform  or  show. 

§ 3.  That  the  proprietor  or  lessee  of  any  public  hall  or 
opera  house  in  this  city  may  take  out  a license  for  one  year 
for  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars  payable  in  advance,  which  if  so 


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taken  out,  shall  be  in  lieu  of  a license  for  each  entertainment 
held  therein  during  the  period  covered  by  such  license. 

§ 4.  All  licenses  issued  under  the  provisions  hereot 
shall  specify  the  object,  and  length  of  time  for  which  the 
same  shall  have  been  respectively  granted.  Licenses  granted 
under  the  provisions  hereof  shall  at  all  times  be  subject  to 
the  ordinances  of  the  city,  existing  when  issued,  or  subse- 
quently passed.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  person  licensed 
to  keep  good  order  about  his  place  of  exhibition  or  amuse- 
ment, and  for  that  purpose  to  keep  at  his  own  expense  a 
sufficient  police  force. 

§ 5.  If  any  person  shall  violate,  or  aid  or  assist  in  the 
violation  of  any  provision  of  this  chapter,  or  neglect  or 
refuse  to  conform  thereto,  he  shall  be  subject  to  a fine  of 
not  less  than  thirty  dollars  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred 
dollars,  in  the  discretion  of  the  court,  for  every  such  viola- 
tion, and  to  a revocation  of  his  license,  at  the  pleasure  of 
the  city  council. 

§ 6.  This  ordinance  shall  not  apply  to  private  musical 
parties,  concerts  or  exhibitions,  or  church  or  charity  con- 
certs and  entertainments  given  by  the  citizens  of  this  city. 


CHAPTER  XLIII. 

SHOOTING  GALLERIES. 

Sec.  1.  Shooting  galleries  licensed. 

2.  Rate  of  license. 

3.  C onstruction  of  1 icense . 

Section  1.  No  person  shall  own,  keep  or  run  any  shoot- 
ing gallery  or  place  for  target  shooting,  without  first 


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obtaining  a license  therefor,  iincler  a penalty  of  not  less 
than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 2.  The  rate  of  license  for  shooting  galleries  and  places 
for  target  shooting,  shall  be,  for  one  year,  ten  dollars;  and 
for  any  shorter  period,  the  sum  ot  not  less  than  fifty  cents, 
nor  more  than  two  dollars  per  day  for  the  number  of  days 
covered  by  the  license. 

§ 3.  No  license  shall  authorize  the  firing  of  any  gun  or 
any  firearm  within  the  city,  in  contravention  of  any  ordi- 
nance of  the  city,  nor  shall'it  authorize  the  establishment 
or  keeping  of  any  shooting  gallery  or  place  for  target  prac- 
tice in  any  alley  of  the  city,  or  in,  or  upon  any  uninclosed 
place,  nor  shall  any  such  gallery  or  place  for  target  prac- 
tice be  kept  in  any  alley  or  un inclosed  place  within  the 
city,  under  a penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars. 


CHAPTER  XLIV. 

SIDEWALKS, 

StJC.  1.  Sidewalks  not  to  be  obstructed;  penalty. 

2.  May  place  goods  within  three  feet  of  building, 

3.  Not  to  be  obstructed  by  teams. 

4.  Not  to  drive  over  sidewalk. 

5.  Awnings,  etc.,  how  put  up. 

6.  Crosswalks  to  be  kept  free. 

7.  Mayor  to  cause  obstructions  to  be  removed. 

8.  Not  allowed  to  erect  railing,  etc.,  with  spikes  attached. 

Section  1.  That  no  person  shall  place  any  goods  or 
merchandise  tor  sale  or  exhibition  upon  any  sidewalk,  or 
suspend  any  goods  over  the  same  for  sale  or  show,  except 
as  provided  in  the  next  section;  or  place  or  deposit  thereon, 
or  cause  or  suffer  the  same  to  be  done,  any  cask,  barrel. 
Wood,  stone,  plank,  boards,  salt,  or  any  other  article  or 


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thing  whatever,  under  a penalty  of  three  dollars  for  each 
offense,  and  a like  penalty  for  each  and  every  hour  the 
same  shall  remain  after  a notice  by  the  mayor  or  other  city 
officer  to  remove  the  same. 

§ 2.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  any  person  to  place,  hang,  or 
set  out  for  sale  any  goods,  wares  and  merchandise,  on  or 
over  the  sidewalk  in  front  of,  and  within  fhree  feet  of  his 
store  or  building;  Provided,  such  goods,  wares,  or  mer- 
chandise shall  not  be  place  t,  hung,  or  set  within  three  feet 
of  any  stairway.  It  shall  also  be  lawful  for  any  person  to 
place,  and  leave  for  a period  not  to  exceed  one  hour,  on 
four  feet  of  the  outer  edge  of  the  sidewalk,  in  front  of  his 
store  or  building,  any  goods,  wares  and  merchandise, 
which  he  shall  be  in  the  act  of  receiving  or  delivering. 

§ 3.  No  person  shall  at  any  time  fasten  any  horse  or 
horses  in  such  a way  that  the  horse,  vehicle,  reins  or  lines 
shall  be  an  obstruction  to  the  free  use  of  any  sidewalk  un- 
der the  penalty  of  one  dollars  for  each  offense,  and  the  per- 
son in  whose  possession  or  use  such  horse  or  horses  shall 
then  be,  shall  be  deemed  the  offender,  unless  he  can  prove 
the  contrary  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  magistrate  before 
whom  he  shall  be  prosecuted. 

§ 4.  No  person  or  persons  shall  push  or  draw  back  any 
horse,  wagon,  or  cart,  or  other  vehicle  over  any  sidewalk, 
or  use,  ride,  or  drive  any  horse,  wagon,  sled,  or  sleigh 
thereon,  except  where  suitable  crossing  places  are  provided 
under  the  penalty  of  one  dollar  for  each  offense. 

§ 5.  No  owner  or  occupant  of  any  dwelling  Irouse,  store 
or  other  building  shall  fix,  put  up  or  erect,  or  suffer  the 
same  to  remain  fixed,  put  or  erected,  any  sign  or  show  bill, 
show  case,  canvass  or  other  thing  projecting  from  any 
building,  or  hanging  over  the  sidewalk  more  than  three 


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feet  ill  front  of,  and  from  the  wall  of  such  buildiniy,  under 
a penalty  of  live  dollars  for  each  offense,  and  a like  pen- 
alty of  live  dollars  for  every  forty-eigdit  hours  the  same 
shall  remain,  after  being  requested  to  remove  the  same 
by  the  mayor  or  any  city  officer. 

§ G.  All  crosswalks  in  the  city  shall  be  kept  reserved 
free  from  any  sleighs,  wagons,  carts  or  carriages, and  horses 
or  other  animals,  being  placed  or  suffered  to  stand  thereon, 
except  so  far  as  may  be  necessary  in  crossing  the  same,  and 
the  owner  or  driver  of  any  sleigh,  wagon,  cart,  or  other 
carriage,  or  horse  or  other  animal,  offending  herein  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  a penalty  of  three  dollars. 

§ 7.  The  mayor  is  hereby  authorized  to  cause  any  post 
or  other  obstruction  erected,  placed  or  continued  on  any 
sidewalk  contrary  to  the  provisions  hereof,  to  be  removed, 
after  due  notice  has  been  given  to  remove  the  same,  and  a 
neglect  to  comply  with  such  notice. 

§ 8.  No  person  being  the  owner,  lessee  or  agent  of  any 
building  in  this  city,  shall  erect  or  maintain,  or  permit  to 
be  erected  or  maintained,  on  or  about  the  stairway  or  in 
the  entrance  to  such  building,  or  on  or  about  its  exterior 
building  line,  or  upon  any  portion  of  the  sidewalk  adjacent 
to  such  building,  any  railing,  fence,  guard  or  protection  of 
any  kind,  upon  which  said  railing,  fence,  guard  or  other 
protection  there  shall  be  affixed,  or  placed,  or  in  any  man- 
ner attached,  any  spike,  nail  or  other  pointed  instrument 
of  any  kind  or  description,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less 
than  ten  dollars  for  each  offense;  and  each  and  every  day 
any  such  person  shall  fail  or  neglect  to  remove  from  any 
such  railing,  fence  or  other  protection,  any  such  spike,  nail 
or  other  pointed  insti-ument,  after  notice  in  writing  from 


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the  superintencleiit  of  streets  so  to  do,  shall  constitute  a 
new,  separate  and  distinct  offense. 


CHAPTER  XLV. 

STREETS  AND  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  STREETS. 

ARTICLE  I.  STREETS. 

Sec  1.  Not  to  be  encumbered. 

2,  Superintendent  of  streets,  etc.,  to  remove  obstructions  from  streets. 

3.  Articles,  etc.,  found  in  the  streets  may  be  sold. 

Proceeds  of  sale,  how  disposed  of. 

4 Duties  of  superintendent  of  streets. 

5.  Wagons,  etc.,  not  allowed  to  stand  in  streets. 

6.  Buildings,  etc.,  not  to  be  moved  through  streets  without  leave. 

7.  Time  of  removal  to  be  specified. 

8.  Penalty  of. 

9.  Buildings,  etc.,  not  to  be  placed  on  streets  and  alleys. 

10.  Buildings,  etc.,  to  be  removed  trom  streets. 

11.  Penalty  for  refusing  to  remove  obstructions. 

12.  When  obstrueted;  teams,  how  removed 

13.  Dirt  and  rubbish  not  to  be  placed  in  streets.  j 

14.  Water  not  to  be  obstructed. 

15.  Stone,  gravel,  etc. , not  to  be  removed ; when  s^rld. 

16.  Penalty  for  removing  material  etc, 

17.  Excavations  to  be  protected,  etc. 

18.  Setting  of  poles,  consent  of  mayor  and  superintendent  of  streets  neces 

sary . 

19.  Power  of  magistiutes. 

20.  Committee  on  public  improvements,  appointed. 

21.  Duty  of  committee. 

22.  Petitions  for  improvement  referred  to  committee. 

23.  No  certificate  of  acceptance  to  be  given  until  satisfactory  to  committee. 

24.  No  special  improvement  to  be  discontinued  until  costs  are  paid. 

25.  Committee  required  to  report  on  all  new  improvements. 

26.  Duty  of  city  attorney. 

Section  1 . That  no  person  shall  encumber  or  obstruct 
any  street,  alley,  public  landing,  wharf,  or  pier,  or  other 
public  place,  by  placing  therein,  or  thereon,  any  building 
materials,  or  any  article  or  thing  whatever,  without  first 
having  obtained  written  permission  from  the  superintend-' 
ent  of  streets,  under  a penalty  of  ten  dollars  for  each  offense 
and  a further  penalty  of  five  dollar&  for  each  day  or  part  of 


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a clay  such  obstruction  or  incumbrance  shall  remain.  (See 
page  224,  Sec.  6.) 

§ 2.  The  superintendent  of  streets  or  any  alderman  of 
the  city,  mayor,  or  any  police  officer  are  hereby  authorized 
to  order  any  article  or  thing  whatever,  which  may  encum- 
ber or  obstruct  any  street,  alley,  public  landing,  wharf  or 
pier,  to  be  removed,  and  if  such  article  or  thing  shall  not  be 
removed  within  two  hours  after  notice  to  the  owner  thereof 
to  remove  the  same,  or  if  the  owner  cannot  be  read- 
ily found  for  the  purpose  of  such  notice,  to  cause  the  same 
to  be  removed  to  some  suitable  place  to  be  designated  by 
the  mayor  or  any  alderman,  and  the  owner  of  any  articles 
so  removed  shall  forfeit  a penalty  of  ten  dollars  in  addition 
to  the  costs  of  such  removal. 

§ 3.  Any  article  or  thing  which  may  be  removed  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  preceding  section  shall  be  advertised  and 
sold  by  the  superintendent  of  streets,  or  chief  of  police,  at 
the  end  of  thirty  days  after  such  removal,  unless  the  same 
shall  be  sooner  claimed  by  the  owner,  and  the  penalty  and 
costs  paid  by  him ; and  the  officer  making  such  sale  shall 
immediately  thereafter  pay  the  proceeds  thereof  into  the 
city  treasury,  and  shall  furnish  the  treasurer  with  a state- 
ment of  the  articles  sold  and  the  amount  for  which  the 
same  was  sold,  and  the  balance  (if  any)  after  deducting  the 
penalty  and  cost,  shall  be  paid  to  any  person  or  persons 
furnishing  satisfactory  proof  of  ownership. 

§ 4.  The  superintendent  of  streets  shall  not  grant  per- 
mission to  place  or  keep  any  building  materials  in  any  of 
the  streets  and  alleys  of  this  city  for  a longer  period  than 
four  months,  and  such  permission  shall  not  authorize  the 
obstruction  of  more  than  one-half  of  the  carriage  way,  and 
one-half  of  the  sidewalk,  except  in  cases  of  urgent  necessity 


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and  for  short  periods,  and  such  permission  shall  be  deemed 
void  as  to  any  person  who  shall  extend  the  obstruction  be- 
yond the  limits  prescribed  therein. 

§ 5.  No  wasfon,  sled,  sleigh,  carriage  or  vehicle  of  any 
kind  or  description,  or  any  part  of  the  same,  without 
horses  or  other  beasts  of  burden,  shall  be  permitted  to  re- 
main or  stand  in  any  street  or  alley  of  this  city  for  more 
than  three  hours,  for  the  purpose  of  being  repaired,  or  for 
any  other  purpose,  under  a penalty  of  two  dollars,  and  any 
such  wagon, sled, sleigh, carriage  or  vehicle, or  any  part  of  the 
same  may  be  removed  by  the  superintendent  of  streets,  as 
provided  by  section  two  of  this  article. 

§ 6.  No  person  shall  remove,  or  cause  to  be  removed,  or 
aid  or  assist  in  removing  any  building  into,  along  or  across 
any  street,  alley  or  public  ground  in  this  city,  without  first 
obtaining  written  permission  from  the  mayor,  and  conform- 
ing to  such  restrictions  and  con^litions  as  he  may  prescribe, 
under  a penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars,  to  be  recovered  from 
the  owner  of  the  building,  or  any  person  aiding  in  its  re- 
moval, and  a like  penalty  for  every  twenty-four  hours  the 
same  shall  remain  in  or  upon  any  street,  alley  or  public 
ground. 

§ 7.  Every  permission  gi’anted  by  the  mayor  as  con- 
templated in  the  preceding  section,  shall  specify  the  period 
of  time  to  be  occupied  by  such  removal,  which  time  shall, 
in  the  case  be  no  longer  than  is  absolutely  required  there- 
for, but  such  time  may  be  extended  for  good  and  sufficient 
cause. 

§ 8.  The  owner  of  any  building,  or  the  contractor  for 
its  removal,  either  or  both,  who  shall  suffer  the  same  to  re- 
main in  any  of  the  streets  or  alleys,  or  upon  any  of  the 
public  grounds  of  the  city,  for  a longer  period  than  speed- 


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fiecl  in  the  permission  ot  the  mayor,  shall  forfeit  a penalty 
of  ten  dollars,  and  a like  penalty  for  every  twenty-four 
hours  the  same  shall  be  continued. 

§ 9.  No  person  shall  erect  or  place  any  ])uilding,  in 
Mdiole  or  in  part,  upon  any  street,  alley,  sidewalk,  or  any 
other  public  ground  within  this  city,  under  a penalty  of 
fifty  dollars. 

§ 10.  The  owner  of  any  building,  fence  or  other  obstruc- 
tion now  standing,  or  which  may  be  hereafter  erected  or 
placed  upon  any  street,  alley,  sidewalk,  or  any  other  pub- 
lic ground  Avithin  this  city,  shall  remove  the  same  Avithin 
ten  da}^s  after  he  shall  be  required  to  do  so,  by  a notice  in 
Avriting,  signed  by  the  mayor,  under  a penalty  of  one  hun- 
dred dollars  for  every  thirty  days  the  same  shall  so  remain. 

§ 11.  Whenever  the  oAvner  of  any  building,  fence,  or 
other  obstruction,  upon  any  street,  alley,  sideAvalk,  or  pub- 
lic ground  in  this  city,  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  remove  the 
same  after  notice  provided  for  in  preceding  section,  the 
same  shall  be  deemed  a nuisance,  and  it  shall  be  laAvful  for 
the  mayor  to  cause  the  same  to>  be  removed  or  taken  doAvn, 
in  his  discretion,  and  the  expense  thereof  shall  be  recover- 
able of  the  owner,  in  an  action  of  assumpsit,  or  by  assess- 
ment on  the  premises,  in  the  manner  provided  in  the  ordi- 
nance relative  to  nuisances,  and  every  person  Avho  shall  op- 
pose or  resist  the  execution  or  the  order  of  the  mayor  in  the 
premises,  shall  forfeit  a penalty  of  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 12.  Whenever,  from  any  cause,  any  street  or  alley  of 
this  city  shall  be  obstructed  by  a press  ot  teams  attached  to 
A^ehicles,  loaded  or  otherAvise,  the  mayor,  any  alderman, 
ehief  of  police,  policeman  or  superintendent  of  streets,  may 
give  such  directions  in  regard  to  the  removal  of  such  teams, 
vehicles,  etc.,  as  in  the  opinion  of  such  officer,  may  be  re- 


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qilired  by  the  public  convenience,  and  any  person  or  per- 
sons refusing*  or  neglecting  to  obey  such  directions,  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  a sum  of  not  less  than  one  dollar,  nor  ex- 
ceeding ten  dollars,  and  may  be  arrested  forthwith  to  an- 
swer such  refusal  or  neodect. 

O 

§ 13.  No  person  shall  deposit  any  dirt,  straw,  filth, 
chips,  shells,  or  other  rubbish  in  any  street,  alley,  or  other 
public  place  in  this  city,  under  a penalty  of  two  dollars  for 
every  such  offense,  and  a like  sum  for  every  hour  the  same 
shall  remain,  after  notice  to  remove  the  same,  by  any  mem- 
ber of  the  police  department. 

§ 14.  No  person  shall  stop  or  obstruct  the  passage  of 
the  water  of  any  streeet,  gutter,  or  public  sewer,  culvert, 
water  pipe  or  hydrant,  laid  or  placed  by  the  city,  under 
the  penalty  of  not  less  than  three  dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 15.  The  stone,  gravel,  sand  or  other  material  of  which 
the  streets  of  this  city  are  composed,  belonging  exclu- 
sively to  said  city,  and  to  be  used  only  for  grading  and 
improving  the  respective  streets  to  which  said  materials 
pertain,  and  that  the  surplus  materials  over  and  above 
what  are  needed  in  grading  said  streets,  shall  be  valued  or 
appraised  by  some  competent  authority,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  city  council,  and  sold  for  the  benefit  of  the  per- 
sons obliged  to  pay  the  expenses  of  the  gi*ading  and 
improvement  of  the  said  street.  Any  case  now  in  progress 
and  uncompleted  for  the  grading  and  improvements  of  any 
of  the  streets  of  this  city,  where  any  of  the  materials  com- 
posing said  streets  have  been  rera'oved  by  any  special  com- 
missioners of  this  board,  on  any  contracts  or  sub-contracts 
under  such  commissioners  from  said  streets,  and  used  for  any 
purpose  other  than  the  grading  and  improving  the  street 
from  which  said  materials  were  taken,  that  said  material  be 


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specially  valued  by  some  competent  authority,  appointed 
by  the  city  council,  and  the  amount  of  value  so  appraised 
shall  be  deducted  by  the  said  commissioners  for  said  grad- 
ing and  improvement  of  such  street  (if  the  money  be  in 
their  hands),  from  the  amount  of  money  contracted  to  be 
paid  for  such  grading  and  improvements,  which  sum  of 
money  so  deducted  shall  be  paid  into  the  treasury  to  the 
credit  of  the  improvement  fund  of  the  particular  street  to 
which  said  material  belongs. 

§ 16.  If  any  commissioner,  sub-commissioner,  contrac- 
tor, sub-contractor,  or  other  person  shall  remove  any 
material  from  any  street  or  streets  of  this  city,  and  use  the 
same  for  any  other  purpose  than  the  grading  or  improve- 
ment of  said  street,  the  said  material  not  having  been 
valued  and  paid  for  as  aforesaid,  any  such  commissioner, 
contractor  or  sub-contractor  or  other  person,  shall  be 
deemed  a trespasser,  and  be  subject  as  such  for  all  value  of 
said  material,  and  all  damages  that  shall  occur  to  any 
street  or  streets,  or  persons  owning  property  thereon,  by 
suit  in  the  name  of  the  city  corporation  of  Joliet. 

§ 17.  In  all  cases  where  the  city  council  has  heretofore 
granted  or  may  hereafter  grant  to  any  person  or  corpora- 
tion the  privilege  of  laying  gas  or  water  or  other  mains  or 
pipes  in  the  streets  of  the  city,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such 
persons  or  corporations  to  safely  guard  all  excavations 
made  in  laying  such  mains  or  pipes,  and  to  fill  such  exca- 
vations as  soon  as  the  character  of  the  work  will  permit, 
and  without  any  unnecessary  or  unreasonable  delay,  and 
to  resolve  the  surface  of  said  street  to  the  same  condition 
as  before  said  excavations  were  made ; and  any  persons  or 
corporations  making  any  such  excavations  shall  be  liable 
to  the  city  of  Joliet  for  all  damages  which  said  city  may 


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be  compelled  to  pay  by  reason  of  any  injury  occurring  from 
the  making  of  such  excavation,  such  persons  or  corpora- 
tions shall  be  subject  to  all  reasonable  rules  and  regulations 
which  the  city  council  may  prescribe  as  to  the  length  of 
time  which  any  street  may  be  obstructed  by  such  excavation. 

§ 18.  That  all  parties,  companies  and  corporations  shall 
before  they  set  any  poles  for  the  transmission  of  electricity 
for  telegraphing,  telephoning  or  electric  lighting  in  any 
street  or  alley  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  consult  the  mayor  and 
street  superintendent  in  relation  to  the  placing  or  setting 
of  the  same,  and  only  place  such  poles  or  dig  out  said 
streets,  or  in  any  manner  disturb  the  same  except  by  the 
consent  of  the  said  mayor  and  street  superintendent,  and 
and  at  such  places  as  they  shall  direct,  and  in  such  manner 
as  they  shall  designate.  Any  violation  of  this  section 
shall  forfeit  all  rights  conferred  upon  such  person,  company 
or  corporation  to  the  use  of  the  streets  and  alleys  of  said 
city  of  Joliet. 

§ 19.  In  any  case  arising  under  this  chapter  the  court 
or  magistrate  before  whom  conviction  may  be  had,  shall 
have  power  in  their  discretion  to  punish  by  imprisonment 
in  addition  to  the  prescribed  penalty  or  fine  for  a period 
not  exceeding  thirty  days. 

§ 20.  There  shall  be  appointed  a committee  on  public 
improvements,  to  consist  of  three  members ; the  said  com- 
mittee to  be  appointed  in  the  same  manner  and  governed 
by  the  same  general  rules  as  other  standing  committees  of 
this  council. 

§ 21.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee  to  exercise 
a general  oversight  and  supervision  of  the  streets,  alleys 
and  sidewalks  of  the  city,  and  of  the  construction,  repairs, 
and  changes  of  the  same;  to  receive  and  note  all  complaints 


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made  by  citizens  or  others  in  regard  to  their  condition ; to 
direct,  advise  with  and  assist  the  superintendent  of  streets 
in  making  such  repairs,  changes  or  improv^ements  as  the 
safety  or  convenience  ot  the  public  may  require,  and  in  the 
enforcement  of  the  laws  of  the  state  and  ordinances  and 
rules  of  the  city  relating  thereto ; to  make  such  rules  and 
orders,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  council,  as  shall  be 
calculated  to  secure  the  best  possible  condition  of  our  pub- 
lic thoroughfares ; and  such  other  duties  as  the  interests 
confided  to  their  care  shall  require,  or  the  city  council 
direct. 

§ 22.  All  petitions  or  motions  for  the  special  improve- 
ment of  streets,  alleys  or  sidewalks,  shall  be  referred  to 
the  committee  on  public  improvements,  and  it  shall  be  its 
duty  to  inquire  into  the  necessity  and  feasibility  of  the  pro- 
posed improvement ; and  in  case  they  shall  consider  it  nec- 
essary and  practicable,  they  shall  proceed  to  estimate  its 
cost,  and  the  proportion,  if  any,  that  should  be  assessed 
upon  the  city,  acting  as  commissioners  for  that  purpose, 
and  report  the  same  to  the  next  regular  meeting  of  the 
council,  together  with  such  other  facts  bearing  upon  the 
question  as  shall  be  calculated  to  enable  the  city  council  to 
come  to  a proper  decision  in  the  matter. 

§ 23.  In  case  the  ordinance  under  which  the  proposed 
improvements  are  to  be  made  shall  allow  the  property 
owners  to  make  their  own  improvements,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  this  committee,  acting  in  concert  with  the  superin- 
tendent of  streets,  to  see  that  the  improvements  made  by 
the  different  parties  are  uniform  in  their  appearance  and 
character,  and  that  the  streets  and  alleys  if  any,  crossed  by 
the  said  improvement,  if  improved  by  the  city,  are  uniform 
in  construction  and  material  with  the  portion  done  by  in- 


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dividuals;  and  no  certificate  shall  be  given  to  any  individ- 
ual for  improvements  so  made,  until  the  work  shall  be  done 
to  the  satisfaction  of  the  committee  and  in  accordance  with 
the  profiles  and  specifications  of  the  city  surveyor,  norun- 
til  his  proportion  of  the  costs  and  expenses  necessary  to 
enforce  the  proper  prosecution  of  the  said  improvement  are 
paid. 

§ 24.  No  street,  alley,  or  sidewalk  improvement,  for 
which  the  preliminary  steps  have  been  taken  in  answer  to 
the  prayer  of  a petition  of  parties  interested  shall  be  dis- 
continued until  all  costs  incurred  up  to  the  time  of  discon- 
tinuance are  paid  and  the  city  relieved  from  all  further  lia- 
bility ; and  until  the  city  is  so  relieved  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  proper  officers  to  enforce  the  completion  of  the  said 
improvement  by  due  process  of  law,  if  necessary. 

§ 25.  No  new  improvement  shall  be  commenced  by  this 
committee,  except  in  case  of  extreme  emergency,  without 
first  reporting  its  importance  or  necessity  to  the  city  coun- 
cil, and  obtaining  its  consent  thereto,  and  in  all  cases  when 
improvements  or  changes  are  ordered  by  the  committee,  the 
cost  which  would  fall  in  whole  or  in  part  upon  individuals, 
any  citizen  feeling  himself  aggrieved  by  the  action  ot  the 
committee,  may  appeal  to  the  city  council  for  redress. 

§ 26.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  attorney  to  attend 
to  all  cases  brought  before  the  courts  to  enforce  special 
improvements,  to  guard  the  interests  of  the  city  and  its 
citizens  in  the  prosecution  of  such  suits  and  to  see  that 
the  costs  are  assessed  upon  the  basis  of  services  actually 
rendered;  the  claims  for  such  services  being  verified  by 
the  oath  of  the  claimant. 


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ARTICLE  n. 

SUPERINTENDENT  OF  STREETS. 

Sec.  1.  Appointment  of. 

2.  Duties  of. 

3.  Duties  on  repairs. 

4.  Ordinances,  how  construed. 

Section  1.  That  on  the  first  regular  meeting  in  May  in 
each  year  the  mayor,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  a majority 
of  all  the  aldermen  elected  to  the  council,  shall  appoint  a 
superintendent  of  streets,  who  shall  perform  such  duties 
as  the  council  may,  from  time  to  time  prescribe,  and  shall 
receive  for  his  services  such  compensation  as  the  city  coun- 
cil may  determine.  Said  superintendent  of  streets  shall  be 
employed  and  paid  by  the  month,  and  may  be  discharged 
at  the  close  of  any  month,  by  the  mayor  and  council.  He 
’ shall  be  a special  policeman  without  extra  compensation. 

§ 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  of  streets 
to  superintend  all  local  improvements,  embracing  the 
grading  and  draining  of  streets,  the  co-nstruction  of  sewers, 
ditches  and  sidewalks,  and  to  personally  see  that  all  con- 
tracts executed  by  the  authority  of  the  city,  for  improve- 
ments and  public  works,  are  fulfilled  according  to  the  re- 
spective plans  and  specifications,  and  it  shall  be  the  further 
duty  of  such  superintendent  of  streets  to  carry  into  effect 
all  such  orders,  resolutions  and  ordinances  passed  from 
time  to  time  by  the  city  council,  as  relates  to  his  duties, 
and  to  cause  all  ordinances  of  the  city  respecting  streets, 
alleys,  public  grounds,  sidewalks,  drains  and  sewers,  to  be 
obeyed  and  enforced. 

§ 3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  of  streets, 
whenever  any  portions  of  the  public  streets  and 


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alleys  or  bridges  require  repairs  to  report  to 
the  city  council  the  particular  repairs  that  are 
required,  and  his  estimate  ot  the  cost  of  the  same,  when,  if 
the  city  council  so  order,  the  superintendent  of  streets  shall 
procure  the  necessary  hands,  teams  and  implements,  and 
proceed  to  do  the  work  that  may  be  ordered,  keeping  the 
time  of  all  hands,  teams  and  implements  employed  by  him, 
and  report  to  the  city  council,  showing  the  amount  due  to 
each  person  so  employed  and  also  the  ward  in  which  such 
labor  was  performed.  It  shall  be  the  further  duty  of  such 
superintendent  to  report  monthly  to  the  city  council  all 
work  done  during  the  month,  and  all  expenses  incurred  in 
his  department,  and  to  pay  into  the  city  treasury  all  money 
which  may  be  received  by  him  on  account  of  said  city,  and 
to  include  a statement  of  same  in  his  monthly  report. 

§ 4.  Nothing  in  this  article  or  any  ordinance,  order  or. 
resolution  of  the  city  council  shall  be  construed  as  author- 
izing the  superintendent  of  streets  to  make  any  expendi- 
tures of  money  or  labor  on  the  streets  or  alleys,  unless  he 
shall  have  previously  reported  to  the  city  council  that  the 
same  is  necessary,  together  with  his  estimate  of  the  cost  of 
the  same,  and  the  special  authority  and  permission  of  the 
city  council  be  first  given  for  its  performance. 


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CHAPTER  XLVI. 


SUPPLIES  AND  CLAIMS. 


Skc.  1.  Time  contracts;  duration,  etc. 

2.  Requisition; -when  made. 

3.  Who  to  purchase;  order  and  bill. 

4.  Claims  for  goods  not  ordered,  not  to  be  allowed. 

5.  Bill;  what  to  contain;  certificate. 

6.  Printed  blanks  when  not  to  be  purchased. 

7.  All  claims  to  be  filed  five  days  before  regular  council  meeting. 

8.  School  board  to  file  statement  of  claims  audited  by  them. 


Section  1 . All  supplies  or  materials  for  the  city  of  Joliet 
shall,  when  practicable,  be  purchased  under  time  contracts 
the  same  to  be  let  upon  advertisement  to  the  lowest  and 
best  bidder,  as  the  city  council  may  determine,  no  time 


contract  to  furnish  any  supplies  or  materials  shall  cover  a 


longer  period  than  one  year. 


§ 2.  Any  officer  or  person  having  charge  of  any  depart- 
ment of  the  city  government  shall,  whenever  any  supplies 
or  materials  are  needed  in  his  department,  for  the  furnish- 
ing of  which  the  city  does  not  hold  a time  contract,  make 
out  and  present  to  the  city  council,  a written  requisition 
setting  forth  the  article  or  articles  needed  and  the  price 
thereof,  if  known. 

§ 3.  The  council  shall,  at  the  time  of  order  ing  the  pur- 
chase of  any  supplies,  designate  who  is  authorized  to  make 
the  purchase;  and  every  officer  or  person  ordering  any 
article  from  a distance  for  the  city,  shall  file  with  the  city 
clerk  a copy  of  the  order  sent  by  him  with  terms  of  pur- 
chase, and  also  the  bill  of  the  article  so  ordered,  as  soon 
as  the  same  is  received. 


§ 4.  No  account  or  claim  for  any  article  furnished  to 
the  city  shall  be  allowed  unless  such  article  was  ordered  to 


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be  purchased  by  the  city  council,  or  unless  the  purchase 
thereof  was  the  result  of  an  emergency  which  could  not 
reasonably  have  been  forseen  in  time  to  present  a requi- 
sition to  the  council. 

§ 5.  Every  bill  presented  to  the  city  council  for  allow- 
ance shall  contain  an  itemized  statement  of  the  articles  for 
which  payment  is  sought,  and  shall  be  certified  to  by  the 
officer  under  whom  the  liability  was  incurred;  and  said 
officer  in  certifying  to  the  bill  shall  indicate  the  place 
where,  and  purpose  for  which  the  same  was  used. 

§ 6.  That  no  officer  of  the  city  or  member  of  the  school 
board  shall  have  any  power  or  authority  to  order  blanks 
from  the  city  printer,  exce’pt  upon  the  size  and  form  of 
blanks  described  in  and  covered  by  the  contract  of  the  city 
printer,  without  the  vote  of  the  city  council  first  had 
specially  authorizing  and  ordering  the  same  and  designat- 
inof  the  size  and  form  of  such  blanks. 

§ 7.  All  claims,  bills  or  accounts,  shall  be  filed  with  the 
city  clerk  at  least  five  days  before  the  regular  meeting  of 
the  city  council.  If  not  so  filed,  the  same  shall  lay  over 
until  the  next  regular  meeting  of  the  city  council. 

§ 8.  The  board  of  school  inspectors  by  their  proper 
officers  are  hereby  required  and  directed  to  file  with  the 
city  clerk  a statement  of  all  bills  and  accounts,  audited  by 
them,  and  the  amount  of  each  bill  and  the  name  of  the 
person  entitled  to  such  allowance. 


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CHAPTER  XLYII. 

TREES, 

S KO . 1.  Not  to  obstruct  lamps. 

2.  Penalty. 

3.  Not  to  injure. 

4.  How  trimmed,  penalty. 

Section  1.  If  any  trees  shall  be  suffered  by  the  owner  or 
occupant  of  the  premises  to  grow  in  such  a manner  as  to 
obstruct  the  reflection  of  the  public  lamps,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  superintendent  of  streets  to  notify  the  owner 
or  occupant  of  the  premises  forthwith  to  trim  the  same  in 
the  manner  to  be  specified  in  the  notice, 

§ 2.  If  any  person  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  comply 
with  such  notice,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  superintend- 
ent to  cause  such  trees  to  be  trimmed,  and  the  person  so 
refusing  or  neglecting  shall  be  subject  to  a penalty  of  one 
dollar  for  each  tree  he  was  so  .notified,  and  refused  or  neg- 
lected to  trim. 

§ 3.  No  person,  other  than  the  owner  of  the  abutting 
property,  shall  cut  down,  destroy,  break,  or  in  any  way 
injure  any  tree  or  shrub  standing  in  any  street  or  public 
place,  except  by  permission  of  the  city  council  or  the  su- 
perintendent of  streets,  under  the  penalty  of  not  less  than 
five  dollars  for  such  offense, 

§ 4.  All  trees  kept,  maintained,  or  cultivated  in  any  of 
the  streets  or  public  places  of  the  city,  shall  have  the 
boughs  or  branches  cut  or  trimmed  close  to  the  trunk  of 
the  tree,  at  least  ten  feet  above  the  ground,  and  it  shall 
not  be  lawful  to  keep,  maintain  or  cultivate  trees  in  any  of 
the  streets  or  other  public  places  in  the  city,  excepting  in 


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the  manner  provided  in  this  section,  under  the  penalty  of 
ten  dollars  for  each  offense. 


CHAPTER^  XLVIII. 

VEHICLES. 


Sec  1.  Persons  transporting  for  hire  must  have  license . 

2,  Hackney  carriages  defined , 

• 3.  How  license  granted. 

4.  Vehicles  to  be  numbered. 

5.  Owners  of  vehicles  responsible  for  goods. 

6.  Penalty  for  refusing  to  carry  persons,  etc. 

7.  Penalty  for  using  Indecent  and  profane  language. 

8.  Fee  allowed  to  teamsters,  draymen,  etc.  j 

9.  Fee  allowed  hackmen,  etc. 

10.  Draymen,  etc. , to  load  and  unload  goods. 

11 . Penalty  for  taking  a larger  fee  than  allowed . 

12.  Not  to  apply  to  merchants  and  laboring  teamsters. 

13.  Penalty  without  license.  , 

14.  Sprinklers  to  be  licensed. 

15.  Bond  required,  i-ate,  etc. 

16.  Persons  governed  by  ordinances  of  city. 


Section  1.  That  no  person  shall  charge,  receive,  or  de- 
mand any  pay  for  the  hauling  or  transporting  any  article 
or  personal  property  whatever  in  or  upon  any  wagon,  cart, 
dray,  or  other  vehicle,  nor  for  the  hire  or  use  of  the  same, 
within  the  limits  of  said  city,  without  first  having  obtained 
a license  so  to  do  as  hereinafter  provided. 


§ 2.  Every  four  wheeled  vehicle,  drawn  by  two  or  more 
horses  or  mules,  which  shall  be  kept  or  used  within  said 
city,  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  persons  from  one  place  to 
another  through  or  in  said  city  (mail  stages  only  excepted) 
or  from  said  city  to  places  without  the  same,  or  from  places 
without  said  city,  to  any  place  within  the  same,  for  hire  or 
payment  received  by  the  owner,  agent  or  driver  thereof,  is 
hereby  declared  and  taken  to  be  a hackney  carriage,  within 
the  meaning  of  this  chapter ; and  no  person  shall  keep  and 


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use  any  such  hackney  carriage  in  said  city  for  hire  or  pay 
for  the  purposes  herein  stated  without  first  having  obtained 
a license  so  to  do  as  hereinafter  required. 

§ 3.  The  mayor  is  hereby  authorized  to  license,  under 
his  hand,  attested  by  the  clerk,  and  seal  of  the  city,  any 
person  or  persons  residents  of  said  city,  to  keep  and  use 
for  the  conveyance  of  any  person  or  any  article  of  personal 
property  whatever,  any  or  either  of  the  carriages  or  vehi- 
cles aforesaid,  upon  his  or  their  entering  into  a bond  with 
sufficient  sureties  to  be  approved  by  the  mayor,  in  the  pen- 
alty of  five  hundred  dollars,  conditioned  for  the  payment 
of  all  penalties  and  damages  which  said  owner  or  owners, 
and  the  driver  or  drivers  thereof  may  incur,  or  be  liable  to 
liay  under  any  by-law  or  ordinance  of  said  city,  now  in 
force,  or  that  shall  hereafter  be  established.  The  said  ap- 
plicant shall  pay' into  the  city  treasury  the  sum  of  one  dol- 
lar for  license  for  drays  or  any  vehicle  drawn  by  one  horse 
or  other  animal,  and  for  any  vehicle  drawn  by  two  or  more 
iiorses  or  mules,  the  sum  of  two  dollars;  and  no  license 
shall  be  granted  for  a less  term  than  one  year,  and,  unless 
revoked,shall  continue  in  force  until  the  first  day  of  March, 
after  the  date  of  the  issuing  thereof.  Licenses  issued  under 
this  chapter  are  not  transferable. 

§ 4.  Every  wagon,  cart,  dray,  hackney  carriage,  or  other 
vehicle  licensed  under  this  chapter  shall  bear  its  number, 
as  registered  by  the  city  clerk,  in  plain  and  conspicuous 
figures  at  least  three  inches  in  length,  and  be  placed  in  the 
most  conspicuous  place  on  the  vehicle,  the  licensee  to  have 
the  same  done  at  his  or  their  own  expense;  and  any  person 
who  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  keep  his  wagon,  cart  or  dray, 
hackney  carriage,  or  other  vehicle  numbered  in  accordance 
with  the  number  furnished  by  the  clerk,  as  herein  required. 


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or  if  he  shall  have  more  than  one  number  on  the  same,  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  the  sum  of  not  less  than  one  dollar  nor  more 
than  five  dollars  for  every  day  he  shall  use  said  wagon, 
cart,  dray  or  other  vehicle,  without  having  the  sgme  num- 
bered as  aloresaid. 

§ 5.  The  owners  of  vehicles,  and  all  persons  taking  out 
license  under  this  chapter,  shall  be  responsible  for  all 
goods,  wares,  property  and  merchandise  delivered  to  their 
care,  or  to  the  care  of  any  driver  or  persons  having  charge 
of  any  licensed  wagon,  cart,  dray,  hackney  carriage  or 
other  vehicle. 

§ 6.  If  any  owner,  driver  or  person  in  charge  of  any 
wagon,  cart,  dray,  hackney  carriage,  or  other  vehicle  li- 
censed as  aforesaid,  shall,  while  unemployed,  and  on  any 
street  or  alley,  or  upon  the  public  landing,  or  at  any  rail- 
road depot,  or  place  in  said  city,  refuse  to  haul  a load  or 
loads  for  any  person,  or  refuse  to  carry  any  passengers  and 
their  basfsraofe,  who  shall  tender  him  the  resfular  fare  or 
fee  th<u-efor,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  the  sum  of  not  less 
than  three  dollars,  nor  more  than  ten  dollars  for  each 
offense. 

§ 7.  Any  hackman,  cartman,  drayman,  or  any  person  in 
charge  of  any  omnibus,  baggage,  or  express  wagon,  or 
other  vehicle,  licensed  as  aforesaid,  who  shall,  while  wait- 
ing for  employment  on  any  street  or  at  any  railroad  termi- 
nation or  depot,  boat  landing,  or  elsewhere,  leave 
such  vehicle  except  for  the  purpose  of  getting  the 
baggage  or  other  personal  property  of  the  person 
employing  him,  or  shall  snap,  crack,  or  flourish  his  whip^ 
or  use  indecent  or  profane  language,  or  be  guilty  of  bois- 
terous or  loud  talking,  or  hallooing,  or  any  disorderly  con- 
duct, or  who  shall  vex,  disturb,  importune,  annoy  or  de- 


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ceive  passengers,  travelers,  or  citizens,  or  obstruct  any 
street  or  sidewalk,  or  shall  refuse  to  observe  and  obey  any 
order  or  direction  of  the'  mayor,  chief  of  police,  policeman, 
magistrate,  alderman,  or  other  conservator  of  the  peace  in 
said  city,  which  may  be  given  for  the  preservation  of  good 
order  and  for  the  convenience  of  the  public,  at  any  railroad 
termination,  boat  lairding  or  elsewhere,  shall  be  subject  to 
a fine  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars. 

§ 8.  The  fee  or  charge  allowed  to  teamsters,  draymen, 
cartmeu,  drivers  of  express  wagons,  and  other  vehicles, 
licensed  under  this  chapter  shall  be  as  follows,  to-wit:' 

First.  For  hauling  each  load  or  baggage  no^  exceeding 
four  hundred  pounds  in  weight,  to  or  from  any  part  of  the 
city,  the  sum  of  twenty-five  cents. 

Second.  For  hauling  each  load  exceeding  four  hundred 
pounds  in  weight  to  or  from  any  part  of  the  city,  the  sum 
of  fifty  cents. 

Third.  For  hauling  each  load  of  furniture,  not  exceed- 
ing one  dollar. 

Fourth.  For  hauling  or  removing  pianos,  safes,  or 
heavy  articles  weighing  over  800  pounds,  requiring  the  aid 
of  two  or  more  men,  to  lift  or  remove,  the  sum  of  two 
dollars  to  five  dollars,  according  to  help  required. 

§ 9.  The  fee  or  charge  allowed  to  hackmen,  omnibus 
drivers,  and  others  engaged  in  carrying  and  conveying  pas- 
sengers, as  contemplated  by  this  chapter,  shall  be  as  fol- 
lows, to-wit: 

First.  For  conveying  each  passenger  between  any  two 
points  within  the  city,  including  one  trunk  and  other  ordi- 
nary baggage,  the  sum  of  fifty  cents,  each  passenger  with- 
out baggage,  twenty-five  cents;  and  for  conveying  each 


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child,  between  five  and  fourteen  years  ot  age  the  same  dis- 
tance, the  sum  of  fifteen  cents.  Double  rates  may  be  charged 
for  conveyance  of  passengers  and  baggage  between  the 
hours  of  eleven  P.  M.  and  five  A.  M. 

§ 10.  That  the  services  to  be  rendered  by  the  person  in 
charge  ot  a licensed  wagon,  cart,  dray,  or  other  vehicle, 
for  the  fee  herein  specified,  shall  include  the  loading,  haul- 
ing and  unloading  of  the  property. 

§ 11.  If  any  owner,  driver  or  person  having  charge  of 
any  licensed  wagon,  cart,  dray,  hackney  carriage  or  other 
vehicle,  shall  charge,  receive  or  demand  any  higher  fee  or 
charge  than  is  allowed  by  this  chapter,  he  shall  forfeit  and* 
pay  not  less  than  three  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars  for 
each  offense;  and  the  court  or  magistrate  may,  in  his  dis- 
cretion, enter  up  as  a part  of  the  judgment  the  forfeiture  of 
his  license. 

§ 12.  This  ordinance  shall  not  apply  to  wagons  and 
other  vehicles  kept  by  merchants  for  the  free  delivery  of 
goods  sold  by  them,  nor  to  the  owners  or  drivers  of 
teams  conveying  to  market,  who  shall  transport  for  hire  or 
pay  any  article  from  the  city  to  any  place  without  the  same 
nor  to  the  hauling  or  transportation  of  brick,  sand,  lime, 
mortar,  stone,  coal,  wood,  hay  and  straw,  nor  to  any  wagon, 
cart,  dray  or  other  vehicle  employed  on  any  public  improve- 
ment of  said  city,  nor  to  any  of  said  vehicles  employed  in 
digging  cellars  and  foundations  where  buildings  are  to  be 
erected.  Provided^  that  said  vehicles  are  not  used  for 
other  purposes  of  hire. 

§ 13.  Any  person  who  shall,  without  being  licensed  as 
herein  required,  demand,  charge  or  receive  any  sum  of 
money  or  other  valuable  thing  for  hauling  any  load  or  loads 
of  personal  property,  or  conveying  persons,  as  contem- 


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plated  by  this  chapter,  or  for  the  hire  or  use  of  any  wagon, 
cart,  dray,  hackney  carriage  or  other  vehicle,  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars  for 
every  oJSense. 

§ 14.  That  no  person  shall  use  any  street  sprinkler  in 
sprinkling  any  street  in  the  said  city  without  first  having 
obtained  a license  so  to  do,  as  hereinafter  provided. 

§ 15.  The  mayor  is  hereby  authorized  to  license  under 
his  hand  attested  by  the  clerk  and  seal  of  the  city,  any 
resident  of  this  city  to  keep  and  use  a street  sprinkler  for 
sprinkling  the  streets,  upon  his  entering  into  a bond  with 
sufficient  sureties  to  be  approved  by  the  mayor  and  city 
clerk,  in  the  penalty  of  one  thousand  dollars,  conditioned 
for  the  payment  of  all  damages  that  may  result  to  any 
person  or  persons  or  property  in  consequence  of  using  such 
street  sprinkler  on  the  streets  of  the  city.  1 hat  said  ap- 
plicant shall  pay  into  the  city  treasury  the  sum  of  three 
dollars  for  license  for  such  street  sprinklers.  The  said 
license,  unless  revoked,  shall  continue  in  force  until  the 
first  day  of  March,  after  the  date  of  issuing  thereof. 

§ 16.  All  persons  taking  out  license  under  this  chapter, 
shall  be  subject  to,  and  be  governed  by  the  ordinances  of 
said  city  now  in  force,  or  that  may  hereafter  be  passed 
in  relation  to  any  of  said  licenses,  or  to  the  business  con- 
nected therewith. 


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CHAPTER  XLIX. 

VAGRANTS. 

Sec.  1.  What  persons  deemed  vagrants. 

2,  Duty  of  officers  to  arrest  vagrants  and  proceedings  before  magistrate. 

3 . Officers  to  search  vagrants  and  to  destroy  property  taken . 

Section  1.  That  the  following  named  and  described  per- 
sons shall  be  and  they  are  hereby  deemed  and  declared  to  be 
vagrants,  and  they  shall  be  arrested  and  punished  as  such, 
in  the  manner  hereinafter  provided,  to  wit: 

First.  All  persons  in  said  city  able  to  support  them- 
selves in  some  honest  and  respectable  calling  or  business) 
and  not  having  visible  means  to  maintain  themselves,  and 
who  live  idly  and  without  lawful  employment  or  business, 
or  who  shall  be  found  loitering  or  strolling  about,  trequent- 
ing  places  where  liquor  of  any  kind  is  sold,  drank  or  kept, 
or  staying  at  or  lodging  in  groceries,  tippling  houses,  beer 
houses,  eating  houses,  market  places,  houses  of  ill-fame 
or  bad  repute,  ten  pin  alleys,  billiard  rooms,  sheds,  stables, 
or  in  the  open  air,  either  during  the  day  time  or  night. 

Second.  All  persons  in  said  city,  able  to  support  them- 
selves in  some  honest  and  respectable  calling  or  business, 
and  who  lead  an  idle,  immoral  or  profligate  course  of  life ; 
and  all  persons  in  said  city  who  shall  be  found  trespassing 
upon  the  private  premises  of  other  persons  and  not  giving 
a good  account  of  themselves;  or  wdio  shall  be  found 
wandering  abroad,  and  from  place  to  place  in  said  city^ 
begging  or  placing  themselves  in  the  streets  or  other 
thoroughfares,  or  in  public  places  to  beg  or  receive  alms. 

Third.  All  persons  in  said  city  who  are  gamblers,  pick- 
pockets, or  prostitutes,  and  who  travel  about  through  the 


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city  by  day  or  night,  or  frequent  or  remain  at  gambling 
houses,  houses  of  ill-fame,  or  places  where  liquor  is  sold, 
drank  or  kept,  or  who  remain  on  railroad  cars,  canal  boats 
or  other  places,  and  travel  about  from  place  to  place,  and 
who  do  not  follow  any  lawful  employment  or  business. 

Fourth.  All  persons  upon  whom  shall  be  found  any 
gambling  apparatus  or  device,  or  any  slung  shot,  pistol  or 
knuckler  of  lead,  brass  or  other  metal,  or  any  instrument, 
composition  or  thing  used  for  the  commission  of  burglary, 
arson,  or  for  the  picking  of  locks  or  pockets,  or  for  the 
playing  of  any  fraudulent  tricks,  plays  or  games,  or  for 
the  manufacture  of  counterfeit  money,  or  for  the  commis- 
sion of  any  offense  against  the  laws  of  this  state,  or  the 
ordinances  of  said  city,  and  who  cannot  give  a good  and 
satisfactory  account  of  their  possession  of  the  same. 

§ 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  of  police  or  other 
police  officer  of  said  city,  to  arrest,  with  or  without  war- 
rant, all  such  persons  as  are  described  in  the  foregoing  sec- 
tion, and  take  them  before  a police  magistrate  or  justice  of 
the  peace  of  said  city,  and  a complaint  shall  be  made  against 
them  in  the  same  manner  as  is  now  or  may  hereafter  be 
provided  by  ordinance  in  other  cases  for  a violation  of  the 
ordinances  of  said  city ; and  every  person  deemed  guilty 
and  convicted  of  vagrancy  under  this  chapter,  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  any  sum  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars.  And 
the  said  police  magistrate  before  whom  such  vagrant  may 
be  convicted,  shall  require  said  defendant  to  give  bond  to 
the  city  of  Joliet,  with  two  or  more  good  and  sufficient 
securities,  in  the  penalty  of  not  less  than  fifty,  nor  more 
than  one  thousand  dollars,  conditioned  that  he  or  she  will, 
for  the  next  twelve  months  after  the  date  of  said  bond,  be 
of  good  behavior,  and  betake  himself  or  herself  to  some 


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honest  employment  for  support;  and  that  he  or  she  will 
not  during-  that  time  become  a vagrant  within  the  meaning 
of  this  chapter;  and  in  case  said  defendant  fail  or  neglect 
to  enter  into  such  bond  within  a reasonable  time,  to  be  left 
to  the  discretion  of  the  magistrate,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  magistrate  to  commit  said  defendant  to  the  bridewell  of 
said  city,  or  to  the  county  jail  of  Will  county.  And  as  a 
part  ot  said  judgment,  unless  said  fine  be  paid,  shall  be 
ordered  to  be -committed  to  labor  on  the  streets,  alleys  and 
sidewalks  for  the  use  ot  said  city,  until  such  fine  be  paid,  by 
due  course  of  law,  and  until  such  security  shall  be  given, 
not  exceeding  six  months;  Provided y That  in  case  the  defend- 
ant shall,  immediately  on  payment  of  his  said  fine  and  costs, 
depart  from  said  city,  and  not  return  to  the  same  again  for 
the  space  of  one  year,  he  shall  not  be  required  to  execute 
said  bond ; and  in  case  the  defendant  shall  depart  from  said 
city  without  giving  the  said  bond,  and*  shall  return  to  the 
said  city  again  before  the  expiration  of  the  said  year,  he 
shall  be  arrested  by  the  chief  of  police  or  other  police  offi- 
cer of  said  city,  Avithont  warrant,  and  carried  before  the 
said  police  magistrate  or  justice  of  the  peace,  and  in  default 
of  said  bond  he  shall  be  committed  as  herein  required. 

§ 3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  of  police,  or  other 
officer  arresting  any  person  under  the  provisions  of  this 
chapter,  to  carefully  search  such  persons  and  their  baggage, 
premises  and  places  of  abode,  and  if  any  gambling  appa- 
ratus or  device,  slung  shot,  pistol,  knuckler,  instrument, 
composition  or  thing  used  for  the  commission  of  burglary, 
arson  or  the  picking  of  locks  or  pockets,  or  for  the  playing 
of  fraudulent  tricks,  plays  or  games,  or  for  the  manufac- 
ture of  counterfeit  money,  or  for  the  commission  of  any 
offense  against  the  laws  of  this  state  or  the  ordinances  ot 


WARDS. 


2^9 


said  city,  shall  be  found  on  their  persons,  in  their  baggage 
or  in  or  about  their  premises  or  places  of  abode,  the  same 
shall  be  seized  and  delivered  over  to  the  custody  of  the 
mayor  of  said  city ; and  if,  on  the  trial  of  said  person  for 
vagrancy,  they  shall  fail  to  give  a good  and  satistactory 
account  of  their  possession  of  the  same,  to  the  magistrate 
before  whom  they  shall  be  tried,  the  same  shall  be  declared 
forfeited  to  said  city,  and  the  magistrate  or  justice  shall 
enter  up  such  forfeiture  as  a part  of  the  judgment;  and 
the  said  apparatus,  articles  or  things  herein  mentioned 
shall  be  destroyed  by  the  chief  of  police  in  the  presence  of 
the  mayor. 


CHAPTER 

WARDS, 

Section  1,  The  city  of  Joliet  is  hereby  divided  into 
seven  wards,  as  follows: 

The  First  Ward  shall  include  the  territory  bounded  on 
the  North  by  the  north  city  limits,  on  the  East  by  the  east 
•city  limits,  on  the  South  by  the  centre  of  the  main  line  ot 
the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  & Pacific  railroad  track,  on  the 
west  by  the  centre  of  the  main  line  of  the  Chicago  & Alton 
railroad  track. 

The  Second  Ward  shall  include  the  territory  bounded 
on  the  North  by  the  DesPlaines  river  and  north  city  limits, 
on  the  East  by  the  centre  of  the  main  line  of  the  Chicago 

Alton  railroad,  on  the  South  by  Washington  street,  and 
on  the  West  by  the  centre  of  the  DesPlaines  river. 

The  Third  Ward  shall  include  the  territory  bounded  on 


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the  JSorth  by  the  north  city  limits,  on  the  East  by  the 
centre  of  the  DesPlaines  river,  on  the  South  by  Spring 
street  and  a line  running  west  from  the  west  end  of  Spring 
street  to  Center  street,  and  on  the  West  by  the  Plainfield 
road  and  that  part  of  Center  street  from  the  Plainfield  road 
to  where  the  south  line  of  said  road  intersects  Center  street. 

The  Fourth  Ward  shall  include  the  territory  bounded 
on  the  > orth  by  the  Plainfield  road  and  Spring  street  and 
a line  running  from  west  end  of  Spring  street  to 
Center  street,  on  the  East  by  the  centre  of  the  Des- 
Plaines river  and  that  part  of  Center  street  which  lies 
between  the  Plainfield  road  and  where  the  line  running 
west  from  Spring  street  strikes  Center  street,  on  the  South 
by  Exchange  street,  and  on  the  AVest  by  the  west  city 
limits. 

The  Fifth  AVard  shall  include  the  territory  bounded  on 
the  North  by  Exchange  street,  on  the  East  by  the  centre 
of  the  DesPlaines  river,  on  the  South  by  the  DesPlaines 
river  and  the  south  city  limits  and  on  the  AA^est  by  the 
w’est  city  limits. 

The  Sixth  AYard  shall  include  the  territory  bounded  on 
the  North  by  the  DesPlaines  river  and  Washington  street, 
on  the  East  by  the  centre  of  the  main  line  of  the  Chi- 
cago & Alton  railroad,  on  the  South  by  the  south  city  lim- 
its, and  on  the  West  by  the  centre  of  the  DesPlaines  river. 

The  Seventh  AA^ard  shall  include  the  territory  bounded 
on  the  North  by  the  centre  of  the  main  line  of  the  Chicago, 
Pock  Island  & Pacific  company's  railroad,  on  the  East  by 
the  east  city  limits,  on  the  South  by  the  south  city  limits, 
and  on  the  AYest  by  the  centre  of  the  main  line  of  the 
Chicago  & Alton  railroad. 


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CHAPTER  LI. 

WEIGHTS  AND  MEASURES. 

Sec.  1.  Regulator  of. 

2.  Council  to  appoint  sealer. 

3.  Duties  of;  hindering  or  delaying  inspector. 

4.  Fee  of  sealer;  additional  fees  of. 

5.  To  inspect  on  request;  complaint,  etc. 

6.  Not  to  use  weights,  etc.,  unsealed;  penalty. 

7.  Sealer  to  make  a register;  report. 

8.  When  to  deliver  weights  and  measures  to  city  clerk. 

Section  1 . That  hereafter  there  shall  be  an  inspector  of 
weights  and  measures  within  this  city,  and  the  standard 
adopted  by  the  state  of  Illinois  shall  be  the  test  by  which 
they  shall  be  compared  and  determined. 

§ 2.  The  mayor  and  city  council  shall  appoint  an 
inspector  of  weights  and  measures  at  the  first  regular  meet- 
ing in  May  of  each  year,  or  as  soon  thereatter  as  may  be, 
who  shall  continue  in  office  for  one  year,  or  until  his  suc- 
cessor is  appointed.  Every  such  inspector  shall  for  the 
faithful  performance  of  his  duties,  execute  a bond  to  the 
city  of  Joliet  in  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars,  with 
sureties  to  be  approved  by  the  mayor,  conditioned  for  the 
faithful  performance  of  his  duties. 

§ 3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  inspector  of  weights 
and  measures,  at  least  once  in  every  year,  to  examine  and 
test  the  accuracy  of  all  weights,  measures  and  scales,  or 
other  instruments  or  things  used  by  any  person  for  weigh- 
ing or  measuring  any  articles  for  sale  in  said  city  of  Joliet 
to  stamp  with  a suitable  seal,  all  weights,  measures  and 
scales  so  used,  which  he  may  find  correct,  and  deliver  to 
the  owner  thereof  a certificate  of  their  accuracy ; to  con- 
demn all  weights,  measures  and  scales  which  he  may  find 


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incorrect  upon  such  inspection,  and  to  cause  the  owner 
thereof  to  have  them  corrected  and  made  conformable  to 
said  standard.  Any  person  refusing  to  exhibit  any  weights, 
measures  or  scales,  or  instruments  for  weighing  or  measur- 
ing, to  said  inspector,  for  the  purpose  of  examination  and 
inspection  as  aforesaid,  or  obstructing  him  in  the  perform- 
ance of  his  duty,  or  using  any  weights,  measures  and  scales 
which  have  been  condemned,  before  the  same  have  been 
prepared  and  adjusted,  shall  forfeit  a penalty  of  not  less 
than  three  dollars  nor  more  than  ten  dollars  for  each  offense, 
recoverable  before  any  court  or  justice  having  jurisdiction 
of  the  same  within  the  city. 

§ 4.  The  inspector  of  weights  and  measures  shall  be 
allowed  to  receive  the  following. fees  for  services  rendered 
by  him  under  this  chapter,  said  fees  to  be  paid  by  the 
owner  or  owners  of  the  scales  or  measures : 

For  inspecting  and  sealing  railroad  or  track  scales  of  ten 
tons  and  upwards,  each,  live  dollars. 

For  inspecting  and  sealing  scales  of  four  to  ten  tons 
capacity,  each,  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents. 

For  inspecting  and  sealing  hay,  coal  and  depot  scales, 
each,  one  dollar. 

For  inspecting  and  sealing  dormant  scales,  each,  seventy- 
five  cents. 

For  inspecting  and  ' sealing  hopper  scales,  each,  one 
dollar. 

For  inspecting  and  sealing  movable  platform  scales,  each, 
fifty  cents. 

For  inspecting  and  sealing  counter  scales,  each  twenty- 
five  cents. 

For  comparing  and  sealing  any  measure  of  the  capacity 
of  a bushel  or  more,  each,  ten  cents. 


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303 


For  comparing  and  sealing  any  measure  of  the  capacity 
of  a half  bushel  or  less,  each,  five  cents. 

For  comparing  and  sealing  liquid  measures,  each,  five 
cents. 

For  comparing,  inspecting  and  sealing  cloth  and  wood 
measures,  each,  five  cents. 

The  inspector  of  weights  and  measures  shall  also  be 
entitled  to  receive  a fair  compensation  for  his  labor  and 
material  necessary  to  make  weights  and  measures  accurate. 

§ 5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  inspector,  whenever 
complaint  is  made  to  him  by  any  person  interested,  or 
whenever  he  may  have  reason  to  believe  that  any  weight, 
measure,  scale,  balance  or  other  instrument  used  for  weigh- 
ing or  measuring  in  said  city  is  incorrect,  or  whenever 
thereto  requested  by  the  owner  of,  or  person  using  any  such, 
to  inspect  and  test  the  same,  without  regard  to  the  date  of 
any  previous  inspection;  Provided^  that  said  inspector  shall 
not  be  entitled  to  charge  for  any  except  the  regular  yearly 
inspection,  except  in  cases  where  requested  to  inspect  by  the 
owner  or  user,  or  when  the  weight,  measure,  scale,  balance 
or  instrument  inspected  is  found  to  be  inaccurate  and  untrue, 
when  the  regular  fees  may  be  charged. 

§ 6.  No  person  shall  make  use  of  weights,  measures, 
scales,  or  other  instruments  for  weighing  or  measuring  any 
articles  for  sale  in  the  city,  until  the  same  has  been  duly 
examined  and  sealed  by  the  sealer  of  weights  and  measures 
under  a penalty  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty- 
five  dollars.  Any  person  or  persons  altering  any  weights, 
measures  or  scales,  causing  the  same  to  weigh  incorrectly 
shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  before  any  justice  in  said  city, 
be  fined  in  a sum  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 


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§ 7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  sealer  to  make  a 
register  of  all  weights,  measures,  scales,  beams  and  steel- 
yards or  other  instruments  inspected  by  him,  in  which  he 
shall  state  the  name  of  the  owners  of  the  same,  and 
whether  they  are  conformable  to  the  standard  of  the  state. 
And  it  shall  also  be  his  duty  to  report  to  the  city  council, 
once  in  every  three  months,  the  names  of  all  persons  whose 
weights,  measures,  scales,  beams  and  steelyards  are  incor- 
rect, and  to  deliver  a copy  of  his  register  to  the  clerk  of 
the  city. 

§ 8.  Whenever  the  inspector  of  weights  and  measures 
shall  resign,  be  removed  from  office,  or  remove  from  the 
city,  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  deliver  to  the  city  clerk  all  the 
standard  beams,  weights  and  measures  in  his  possession. 


CHAPTER  Lll. 

WOOD  AND  HAY. 

Sec.  1.  Inspector  to  be  appointed. 

2.  Duties  of;  fees  of; 

3.  All  wood  to  be  well  packed ; penalty. 

4.  All  wood  to  be  inspected ; penalty . 

5.  Inspector  to  have  place  of  business. 

6.  Wood  and  hay  stands;  where  located. 

Section  1.  That  there  shall  be  appointed  by  the  city 
council,  from  time  to  time  a competent  person,  who  shall 
be  denominated  measurer  and  inspector  of  fire  wood,  who 
shall  hold  his  office  until  the  election  and  qualification  of 
his  successor. 

§ 2 . It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  inspector  and  measurer 
to  keep  a book  in  which  he  shall  make  an  entry  of  each 
load  by  him  inspected,  and  on  the  last  Saturday  of  every 
month  he  shall  make  a full  return  to  the  city  clerk  of  the 


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305 


number  of  loads,  and  the  quantity  of  wood  inspected  and 
measured  by  him.  The  said  inspector  shall  be  allowed  to 
charge  and  receive  ten  cents  for  each  cord  or  load  of  larger 
or  smaller  quantities,  not  exceeding  five  cords  and  five 
cents  for  every  cord  over  five  cords  inspected  and  measured 
in  one  lot,  to  be  paid  by  the  seller. 

§ 3.  Every  load  of  wood  offered  for  sale  in  this  city, 
shall  be  packed  as  closely  together  as  it  can  conveniently 
be  put,  and  no  crooked  wood  shall  be  stored  in  any  such 
load,  but  all  crooked  wood  shall  be  sold  by  itself  as  refuse 
wood.  Every  person  violating' this  section  shall  forfeit  a 
penalty  of  one  dollar  for  each  offense. 

§ 4.  All  firewood  sold  by  the  load  in  this  city,  shall  be 
inspected  and  measured  by  said  inspector,  and  the  judg- 
ment of  said  inspector  as  to  the  quality,  quantity  and  kind 
shall  be  conclusive ; and  such  inspector  shall  give  a certifi- 
cate of  the  quality,  quantity  and  kind  in  each  load,  for 
whom,  and  the  date  when  it  was  measured,  which  certifi- 
cate shall  be  surrendered  to  the  purchaser.  Any  person  or 
persons  selling  wood,  who  shall  violate  the  provision  of 
this  section,  shall  be  fined  in  a sum  of  not  exceeding  five 
dollars  for  each  offense. 

§ 5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  inspector  to  be  at 
at  all  reasonable  times  in  attendance  at  such  place  or  places 
as  may  be  designated  as“wood  and  hay  stands,”  within 
the  city,  for  the  purpose  of  inspecting  and  measuring  wood 
and  weighing  hay. 

§ 6.  That  no  person  or  persons  having  wood  or  hay  for 
sale,  by  the  wagon  or  cart  load,  shall  stop  or  wait  for  a 
purchaser  on  any  street,  lane  or  public  grounds  in  the  city 
of  Joliet,  except  as  hereinafter  provided,  to  wit:  On  any 

part  of  Washington  street,  between  the  west  line  of  the 


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alley  running  north  and  south  between  Joliet  and  Ottawa 
streets,  and  DesPlaines  street. 


Chapter  liii. 


ORDINANCES. 


Sec.  1.  Ordinances  to  be  recorded ; publication. 

2 Repealing  ordinance  when  to  take  eftect; 

suits,  etc.,  not  to  be  affected  by  repeals. 

3.  Concerning  same  offense  under  different  clauses, 

4.  Construction  of  words. 

5 . Penalties  in  cases  not  provided  for. 

6.  Acting  mayor  to  have  full  powers;  ^‘reasonable  time*' 

and  “notice"  defined. 


Section  1.  All  ordinances  hereafter  passed  by  the  city 


council  shall  be  recorded  by  the  city  clerk,  in  the  book  of 
ordinances,  and  shall  be  published  in  the  corporation  news- 


paper. 

§ 2.  Whenever  an  ordinance  or  a part  of  an  ordinance 
shall  be  repealed  or  modified  by  a subsequent  ordinance 
the  ordinance  or  part  of  ordinance  thus  repealed  or  modi- 
fied shall  continue  in  force  until  the  due  publication  of  the 
ordinance  repealing  or  modifying  the  same,  when  such  pub- 
lication shall  be  required  to  give  efiect  thereto,  unless 
therein  otherwise  expressly  provided;  but  no  suit,  pro- 
ceeding, right,  fine  or  penalty  instituted,  created,  given, 
secured  or  accrued  under  any  ordinance  previous  to  its 
repeal  shall  in  anywise  be  alfected,  released  or  discharged^ 
but  may  be  prosecuted,  enjoyed  and  recovered  as  fully  as 
if  such  ordinance  had  continued  in  force,  unless  it  shall  be 
therein  otherwise  expressly  provided. 

§ 3 In  all  cases  where  the  same  offense  may  be  made 
punishable,  or  shall  be  created  by  different  clauses  or  sec- 


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307 


tions  of  the  ordinances  of  the  city,  the  prosecuting  officer 
may  declare  upon  all  ol  said  clauses,  sections  or  ordinances; 
but  not  more  than  one  recovery  shall  be  had  against  the 
same  person  for  the  same  offense. 

§ 4.  Whenever  any  words  in  any  ordinance  importing 
the  plural  number  shall  be  used  in  describing  or  refering 
to  any  matters,  parties  or  persons,  any  single  matter,  party 
or  person  shall  be  deemed  to  be  included,  although  distrib- 
utive words  may  not  be  used.  And  when  any  subject  mat- 
ter, party  or  person  shall  be  referred  to  in  any  ordinance 
by  words  importing  the  singular  number  only,  or  the  mas- 
culine gender,  several  matters,  parties  or  persons,  and 
females  as  well  as  males,  and  bodies  corporate,  shall  be 
deemed  to  be  included;  Provided,  Thdii  these  rules  of  con- 
struction shall  not  be  applied  to  any  ordinance  which  shall 
contain  any  express  provisions  excluding  such  construction 
or  where  the  subject  matter  or  context  of  such  ordinance 
may  be  repugnant  thereto. 

§ 5.  Whenever  in  any  ordinance  the  doing  of  any  act 
or  the  omission  to  do  any  act  or  duty  is  declared  to  be  a 
breach  thereof,  and  there  shall  be  no  fine  or  penalty  declared 
for  such  breach,  any  person  who  shall  be  convicted  of  any 
such  breach  shall  be  adjudged  to  pay  a fine  of  not  less  than 
three  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

§ 6.  Whenever  any  power  shall  be  vested  in  the  mayor, 
or  he  shall  be  required  to  do  any  act  or  perform  any  execu- 
tive function,  in  his  absence  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
acting  mayor  or  presiding  officer  of  the  city  council,  for 
the  time  being,  to  exercise  such  power  or  perform  such  act 
or  executive  function  as  fully  as  if  expressly  named  in  the 
ordinance,  unless  it  shall  be  therein  otherwise  expressly 
provided,  or  such  act  would  be  in  derogation  of  the  charter. 


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Ill  all  cases  where  any  ordinance  shall  require  any  act  to  be 
done  in  a “reasonable  time,”  or  “reasonable  notice”  to 
be  given  to  any  person,  such  reasonable  time  or  notice 
shall  be  deemed  to  mean  such  time  only  as  may  be  necessary 
in  the  prompt  execution  of  such  duty  or  compliance  with 
notice. 


ADOPTING  AND  PUBLISHING  ORDINANCE. 


AN  ORDINANCE  ADOPTING  THE  REVISED  ORDINANCE  OF  THE 
CITY  OF  JOLIET  AND  PROVIDING  FOR  THE  PUBLICATION 
THEREOF. 


Be  it  ordained  hy  the  City  Council  of  the  City  of  Joliet  \ 
Section  1.  That  the  foregoing  chapters,  prepared  and 
submitted  by  Robert  T.  Kelly,  City  Clerk  of  said  city, 
numbered  from  one  to  fifty-three  inclusive,  and  more  par- 
ticularly described  by  their  respective  titles  as  follows, 
to  wit  : 

Chapter  1.  Animals,  Pound,  Pound-master. 

2.  Arrests. 


3.  Auctions  and  Auctioneers. 

4.  Billiard,  Pool  and  Bagattille  Tables  and 

Bowling  Alleys. 

5.  Bridges. 


6.  Bridewell. 

7.  Buildings. 

8.  City  Attorney. 

9.  Corporation  Counsel. 

10.  City  Clerk. 


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Chapter  11. 

City  Collector. 

12. 

City  Treasurer, 

13. 

Corporate  yeal. 

14, 

City  Surveyor, 

15. 

City  Council. 

16. 

City  Warrants^ 

17. 

Dogs. 

18. 

Elections. 

19. 

Fees. 

20 

Fire  Department, 

21. 

Fire  Limits. 

22. 

Fiscal  Year. 

23, 

Gunpowder. 

24. 

Health. 

25. 

Intoxicating  Liquor, 

26. 

Licenses. 

27. 

Markets. 

QO 

Misdemeanors, 

29. 

Nuisances. 

30. 

Officers. 

31. 

Oil. 

32. 

Oil  Inspector. 

33, 

Pawnbrokers. 

34. 

Peddlers. 

35. 

Police  Department. 

36. 

Police  Magistrate. 

37. 

Porters  and  Runners, 

38. 

Public  Library. 

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Chapter  39. 

Railroads. 

40. 

Scavengers. 

41. 

Schools. 

42. 

Shows  and  Exhibitions. 

43. 

Shooting  Galleries. 

44. 

Sidewalks. 

45. 

Streets  and  Superintendent  of  Streets. 

46. 

Supplies  and  Claims. 

47. 

Trees. 

48. 

Vehicles. 

49. 

Vagrants, 

50. 

Wards. 

51. 

W eights  and  Measures. 

52. 

Wood  and  Hay. 

53. 

Ordinances. 

be  and  the  same  are  hereby  adopted  and  declared  to  be 
the  ordinances  of  said  city,  and  shall  take  effect  and  be  in 
force  from  and  after  the  first  day  of  July,  in  the  year  of 
our  Lord,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  eighty-four; 
and  it  is  further  hereby  ordered  that  the  said  chapters  and 
ordinances  together  With  this  ordinance,  be  forthwith  pub- 
lished in  book  form  by  authority  of  the  city  council  of  said 
city. 

§ 2.  All  ordinances  of  the  city  of  Joliet,  heretofore 
passed  in  relation  to  the  subjefct  matters  of,  or  inconsistent 
with  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  foregoing  chapters  men- 
tioned in  Section  One  hereof,  be,  and  the  same  are  hereby 
severally  repealed ; Provided such  repeal  shall  not 
affect  any  act  done,  or  any  act  accruing  or  accrued,  or 
established  or  any  office  heretofore  created  and  continued 


ADOPTING  AND  PUBLISHING  ORDINANCE.  311 

and  provided  for  in  any  chapter  mentioned  in  Section  One 
hereof,  or  any  suit,  action  or  proceeding  had  or  commenced 
in  any  civil  case  before  the  time  when  said  repeal  shall 
take  effect,  nor  any  offense  committed,  nor  any  penalty  or 
forfeiture  incurred,  nor  any  suit  or  prosecution  pending  at 
the  time  of  such  repeal,  for  any  offense  committed,  or  for 
the  recovery  of  any  penalty  or  forfeiture  incurred  under 
any  of  the  ordinances  so  repealed ; Provided^  That  no  ordi- 
nance, or  part  of  an  ordinance,  repealed  by  the  city  council, 
shall  be  deemed  to  be  revived  by  the  repeal  of  the  repeal- 
insf  ordinance. 

Passed  April  14th,  A.  D.,  1884.  Approved  April  16th,  A.  D.,  1884. 

Attest:  . THOS.  J.  KELLY, 

ROBERT  T.  KELLY,  Mayor. 

City  Clerk. 


STATE  OF  ILLINOIS,'! 

WILL  COUNTY,  \ SS. 

CITY  OF  JOLIET,  J I,  Robert  T.  Kelly,  Clerk 

of  the  City  of  Joliet,  and  keeper  of  the  papers,  entries, 
records  and  ordinances,  do  hereby  certify  that  the  forego- 
ing is  a true  copy  of  an  ordinance  entitled,  ‘‘An  Ordinance 
Adopting  the  Revised  Ordinance  of  the  City  of  Joliet,  and 
providing  for  the  publication  thereof,”  passed  at  a meeting 
of  the  City  Council  of  said  City  of  Joliet,  held  on  the  14th 
day  of  April,  A.  D.,  1834,  and  approved  on  the  16th  day  of 
April,  A.  D.,  1884,  and  duly  recorded  upon  the  records  of 
said  city,  and  the  original  of  which  the  foregoing  is  a cer- 


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tified  copy,  is  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  City  Clerk  of  said 
city. 

In  testimony  whereof  I have 
hereunto  set  my  hand  and  affixed 
[L.  S.]  the  corporate  seal  of  the  said  City 

of  Joliet  this  16th  day  of  April, 
A.  D.,  1884. 

ROBERT  T.  KELLY,  City  Cleric, 


INDEX 


INDEX. 

A. 

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Advertisements: 

Power  to  regulate;  posting- of 
For  work  to  be  done  by  special  assessment 
Posting  of,  on  property  without  permission 
Aldermen  : 

May  be  elected  on  general  ticket ; when 
Number  of,  in  cities  . - _ 

Term  of  office  of;  vacancy 

Qualifications  of  - 

Not  to  hold  certain  offices 

Not  to  be  intrusted  in  contract  with  city 

Rules;  expulsion;  bribery  - - . 

Two  may  defer  committee  report 

May  call  special  meetings  of  the  council 

To  be  elected  annually  _ . _ 

At  first  election ; classified  _ . . 

Under  minority  plan  - . . 

AVhen  minority  plan  not  adopted 
May  call  special  election;  when 
Qualifications,  etc  - - _ . 

Conservators  of  peace 

Compensation  authorized  . - _ 

One  only,  to  be  director  public  library 
Unlawful  to  accept  office  by  appointment  of  mayor 


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Not  to  be  interested  in  contracts;  bribery  ^9 

Penalty  for  obtaining  contracts,  or  for  bribery  90 
May  make  arrests  - - - 13o 

May  call  special  council  meetings  - - 161 

Contesting  election  of  - - 172 

May  remove  obstructions  from  streets  - 277 

Amusements : 

Power  to  regulate  - 27 

Means  of  egress  from ; open  outward  - 95 

Musical  instruments;  playing  of  in  saloons 

prohibited  - - - 204 

To  be  licensed ; terms  of  - - - 271 

Penalty  for  violation  - - - 272 

Given  by  citizens  - - - - 272 

Animals : 

Power  to  restrain  from  running  at  large  30 

Prevent  running  at  large  - - 131 

Proceedings;  sale,  etc  _ . - 132 

Fees  for  impounding  . > _ 135 

Dogs  prohibited  from  running  at  large  - 169 

Abusing,  overloading,  etc  - - 211 

Annexation  ot  Territoy: 

Petition  to  be  annexed  . . . m 

Annexing  one  corporation  to  another  - 111 

Proceedings  to  annex  territory  - - 112 

A ppointments : 

Committee  to  revise  ordinances  - 10 

Mayor  to  make,  etc  . _ - - 36 

Of  aldermen  to  office  void  - - 89 

Officers  to  be  appointed  by  mayor  - - 230 


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PAGE. 

Appropriations : 

Yea  and  nay  vote  to  be  taken  on  - 13 

Mayor  may  veto  items  of  - - - 14 

Ordinance  to  be  published  - - 32 

When  to  be  made  - - - - 42 

Additional  to  be  submitted  to  people  42 

Expenditures,  limitation  of  - - 42 

Unexpended  to  be  transferred  to  general  fund  153 

.Vrrests ; 

May  be  made  without  warrant  - - 135 

Arrest  regulated;  appearance  and  where  135 

When  defendant  is  drunk,  to  be  continued  • 13(> 

Resisting  or  obstructing  officers  - 137 

Penalty  for  false  representation  as  an  officer  137 

Ashes  : 

Power  to  regulate  deposit  of  - - 22 

Officers  to  examine  places  where  same  are  kept  181 

Removal  of  bv  scavensfer  - - 263 

Depositing  in  street,  etc  . _ - 280 

Assessment:  (t:^ee  Special  Assessment.) 

Auctions: 

Unlawful  to  exercise  the  business  of  auctioneer  138 
To  give  bond  and  payment  for  license  138 

Application  for  license ; how  made  - 138 

Application  for  permit  to  sell  household  goods  130 
P^xemptions  - _ . . . 13<l 

Awning: 

Power  to  regulate  _ . _ 22 

Construction  regulated  - - - 274 


INDEX. 


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B 

PAGE. 

Bills: 

W hen  not  allowed  by  council  - 287 

Of  supplies  to  be  filed  with  clerk  - 287-288 

What  to  contain  _ _ - 288 

statement  of  school  bills,  to  be  filed  288 

Billiard  and  Pool  Tables: 

Power  to  license  . _ _ 25 

Unlawful  to  keep,  etc : penalty  - 140 

Application  for  license  - - 140 

Penalty  for  allowing  minors,  etc  - 140 

When  closed ; penalty  - - - 141 


Board  of  Health:  (See Health.) 
Bonds : 


Power  to  issue  . - - 20 

To  be  given  by  all  officers;  how  approved  3G 

Appeal  bond  not  require*!  of  city  - 80 

Record  of  dram  shop  bonds  - 200 

Bond  required  for  street  obstructions  - 224 

Official  bonds  required  - - 231 

Pawnbrokers  - - - - 236 

Porters  axd  runners  - , - * 249 

Vehicles  - - - - - 291 

Boundaries:  . 

Of  city  - - . - 125 


INDEX. 


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l‘AGE. 

Brewery  : 

Power  to  regiihite  ...  30 

Power  to  license  ...  31 

Creating  nuisance;  penalty  for  - 22(> 

Bridwell  and  Keeper : 

Bridewell  keeper  to  be  poundinaster  • 134 

To  keep  register  as  poundmaster  - 134 

Keeper  to  receive  persons  confined  - 13(i 

Power  of  keeper  - - 143 

Duty  of;  managenient  of  labor  - - 143 

Keep  a record  - - - 144 

Report,  and  pay  over  moneys  collected  - 144 

Bridewell  to  be  kept  clean  - 144 

To  keep  persons  until  expiration  of  commitment  144 
Persons  committed  shall  obey  keeper  - 144 

Duty  of  keeper  and  assistants  to  arrest  14.) 

Chief  of  police  to  make  requisition  for  sup[)lies  145 
Chief  of  police  to  superintend  the  bridewell  14() 

Mayor  and  committee  on  police  to  visit  bridewell  14(> 

Bridges: 

Power  to  construct ; regulate  - - 24 

Power  to  establish  toll  - . 30-82 

Power  to  build,  etc  - - - 122 

Controlled  by  city  - ...  123 

Penalty  for  fast  driving  on  • - 123 

Must  not  drive  faster  than  a walk  ; penalty  141 

Only  ten  head  of  cattle,  etc.,  driven  on  at  n time  141 
Persons  shall  not  stop  with  teams  - 142 

Crowds  and  obstructions,  on;  penalty  142 

Injuring  or  destroying  bridge  - 224 


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PAGE. 

Buildings : 

Power  to  regulate  construction  of  - 25 

Doors  to  open  outward;  penalty  - 95 

When  huildings  may  be  closed  - - 9(i 

How  numbered,  East  Side  - - 140 

How  numbered,  West  Side  - - 147 

How  numbered,  North  and  South  147 

Plats  of  numbers  to  be  prepared  - 1 47 

Size  of  number,  etc  - - - 147 

Neglecting  or  refusing  to  number ; penalW  14N 

How  erected  in  lire  limits  - - 184 

Removal  or  repair  of,  in  fire  limits  186 

What  building  declared  a nuisance  187 

Penalty  of  renting  for  houses  of  ill  fame  214 

Not  to  be  placed  on  streets  - • 276-279 

c. 

Cities ; 

How  organized  under  general  laws  1-2 

Laws  applicable  to  . . - 4 

Corporate  name ; powers  - - 5 

Legal  identity  not  affected  by  change  of 

organization  - - - 5 

Rights,  etc.,  of  old  corporation  to  vest  in  new  6 
Record  result  of  election  - - 6 

Number  of  aldermen  - ^ - 11 

Not  to  become  indebted,  etc  - 20 

Fiscal  year  of  42 


INDEX . 


321 


('ities  (Cont.)  page. 

Make  improvements  by  special  assessment  54 

May  buy  in  special  assessment  - 72 

May  adopt  Article  IX.,  etc  - - 77 

Tax  payer  may  enforce  rights  in  name  of  city  79 
Inhabitants  competent  as  jurors,  etc  79 

Municipal  year  . . _ 80 

Aot  required  to  furnish  appeal  bond  - 80 

May  acquire  bridges  and  ferries,  and  control  82 

May  construct  sidewalks  • - 99 

May  contract  for  sewers  with  each  other  104 

Annexation  of  territory  to  - - 111 

How  territory  disconnected  from  - 112 

May  contract  for  water  - • - 119 

May  levy  tax  for  water  supplied  by  company  120 

Boundaries  of  city  - . _ 125 

W ards,  how  divided  - - - 299 

( 'ity  Attorney : 

Duties  of  - - - - 148 

Salaiy  - - _ _ _ 149 

City  council  may  employ  additional  counsel  149 

Report  required  - - _ I49 

To  try  suits  before  magistrate  or  justice  247 

To  attend  cases,  special  assessments  - 284 

CityCollector: 

His  duties;  report,  etc  - - 40-47 

Not  to  detain  money ; penalty  - - 47-155 

Bxaminatian  of  books;  paying  over  48 

Office  of,  established  - - 153 

Duties  of  - - _ _ 153-154 

Report  to  city  council,  money  collected  155 

(collector’s  compen^iation  - 155 


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PAGE. 

City  Council; 

Submit  question  of  iiicorpoi-cition ; when  1 

Canvass  returns  of  election  on  org'anization  2 

May  elect  nmy or  pro  tern  _ _ 8 

May  disapprove  of  removal  by  two-thirds  vote  8 

How  composed  _ _ _ 10 

Number  of  aldermen  _ _ 11 

Term  of  office  of  aldermen  - - 11 

Vacancy  _ _ _ _ 11 

Qualifications  of  aldermen  - - 11 

Judges  ot  elections,  and  qualification  of  members  12 
Shall  determine  its  own  rules  - 12 

May  expel  a member  - - - 12 

Bribery  vacates  office  - - 12 

Quorum;  compelling  attendance  - 12 

Meetings  - - - - * 12 

Chairman  tern  - - - 12 

Open  doors  _ _ _ ]3 

Journal  shall  be  kept  - - - 13 

Yeas  and  nays,  when  to  be  taken  - 13 

A majority  necessary  to  pass  ordinance  - 13 

Two-thirds  necessary  to  sell  property  13 

Kescinding  vote  at  special  meeting  13 

AVhen  report  laid  over  _ _ 13 

Territorial  jurisdiction  _ - _ 13 

Special  meetings  _ _ _ 14 

Ordinances;  approval;  veto  - - 11 

Keconsideration  ; passing  over  veto  14 

Canvass  election  returns  - - 19 

Power  to  control  finances  - - 20 

Appropriate  money  - - 20 


INDEX. 


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( ’ity  Council  (Cont.)  page. 

Levy  taxes  _ _ _ _ 20 

Control  licenses  _ _ _ 20 

Borrow  money  and  issue  bonds  - - 20 

Levy  tax  to  paj’  indebtedness  - - 20 

Issue  bonds  to  meet  maturing  bonds  - - 21 

Open  and  improve  streets,  etc  - - 21 

Plant  trees  on  streets  - - - 21 

Kegulate  use  of  streets  - - 21 

Kemove  obstructions  from  streets  - - 21 

Light  streets  - - - 21 

Clean  streets  - - - - 21 

Kegulate  openings  in  streets  - - 21 

Regulate  use  of  sidewalks  - - 22 

Ashes,  garbage,  etc  --  - - 22 

Crosswalks,  curbs  and  gutters  - - 22 

Regulate  signs,  awnings,  telegraph  posts,  etc  22 

Kegulate  banners,  playcards,  etc  - - 22 

Prevent  flying  flags  or  signs  - - 22 

Regulate  traffic  and  sales  in  streets  - - 22 

Regulate  speed  of  animals,  vehicles  and  locomotives  22 
Regulate  house  numbers  . _ _ 22 

Name  streets  - - > 22 

Regulate  and  permit  laying  of  railway  tracks  22 

Change  location  and  grade  of  railroad  crossings  23 
Powers  over  railroad  companies  - - 23 

(.Construct  bridges,  viaducts  and  tunnels  24 

(Jonstruct  culverts,  drains,  etc  - - 24 

Deepen  and  widen  dock  - - 24 

(construct  canals  or  slips  - - 24 

Construct  and  regulate  docks,  wharves  and  levees  24 
(kmtrol  anchorage,  etc  - . 24 


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INDEX. 


City  Council  (Cont.)  page. 

License  and  resfiilate  tno^s  - - 24 

Fix  rate  of  wharfage,  and  collect  - 24 

Re«-nlate  use  harbor  and  brid^res  - - 21 

To  appoint  harbor  masters  - - 24 

Clean  water  courses,  etc  - » 23 

License  certain  callings  - - 23 

Suppress  houses  of  gaming  and  ill  fame,  etc  23 

License  and  regnlate  sale  of  liquor  - 23 

Establish  markets  - - 2(> 

Power  to  regnlate  sale  of  provisions  - 2(i 

Punish  forestaling  and  regrating  - 26 

Regulate  sale  of  bread  - - 26 

• Inspecting  of  provisions,  etc  - , 26 

Inspect,  etc.,  any  article  of  merchandise  27 

Inspect  and  seal  weights  and  measures  - 27 

Regnlate  vaults,  cisterns,  pumps,  sewers,  etc  27 

Regulate  places  of  amusements  - 27 

Power  to  prevent  intoxication,  etc  27 

Regulate  partition  fences  and  party  walls  27 

Regulate  fire  escapes  _ _ 27 

Reofulate  construction  of  biiildinofs  - 27 

IT'escribe  fire  limits  and  regulate  chimneys,  etc  27 
Fire  department  - - 28 

Re^^ulate  stora«:e  of  comb u stables  and  fire  Avorks  28 
Regulate  police  - - 28 

Inspect  steam  boilers  - - 28 

listablish  bridewell  or  house  of  correction  28 

May  use  county  jail  - - 29 

To  establish  the  relation  between  officers  29 

Suppress  riots  - • 29 

Punish  cruelty  to  animals  - - 29 


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<5ty  Council  Cont.)  page. 

Punish  Ycio-rants,  beggars  and  prostitutes  29 

Define  and  abate  nuisances  - - 29 

Establish  hospitals  - - 29 

Appoint  board  of  health  - - 29 

Make  health  regulations  - - 29 

Kegulate  and  remove  cemeteries  - 29 

Tax  dogs  . _ - 30 

Regulate  packing  houses,  renderies,  etc  30 

Restrain  animals  from  running'  at  larg*e  30 

Regulate  breweries,  foundries,  etc  - 30 

Prohibit  unwholesome  business  - - 30 

Tate  census  - - 30 

Erect  public  buildings  - - 30 

Establish  ferries  and  toll  bridges  - 30 

Construct  mill  races  - - 31 

Open  street  or  build  sewer  through  R.  R.  land  31 

Grant  permit  to  lay  railroad  tracks  - 31 

Prevent  rolling  hoops,  ball  playing,  etc  31 

Regulate  lumber  yards  - - 31 

Supplies  to  be  furnished  by  contract  32 

Regulate  junk  and  second  hand  dealers  32 

May  pass  ordinances  with  fines,  etc  - 32 

Jurisdiction  over  waters;  street  labor  34 

To  be  elected  - - 35 

Create  and  discontinue  offices  - 35 

Alay  prescribe  duties  of  officers  - 36 

City  clerk  to  keep  journal  of  - 39 

Eix  compensation  of  mayor  - 40 

Pass  appropriation  bill  • - 42 

Expenditures  limited  to  amount  of  appropriations  * 42 
Make  temporary  loan;  provide  for  judgements  43 


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Contracting  liabilities  limited  - - 

Deposit  city  money  - 44 

Make  improvements  by  special  assessments  54 

Appoint  commissioners  for  special  assessments  61 
Order  petition  for  special  assessments  filed  in  court  62 
]\Iay  order  purchase  of  delinquent  assessments  72 

May  annul  special  assessments  - 72 

May  order  new  assessments  - 73 

May  provide  water,  etc  - * 77 

May  levy  and  collect  water  tax;  appropriate  78 

Approve  maps,  subdivisions,  etc  - 79 

Unlawful  to  license  houses  of  ill  fame  - 82 

May  require  labor  on  streets,  etc  - 83 

To  establish  libraries  and  reading  rooms  - 85 

May  provide,  that  persons  committed  for 

violation  of  ordinances  be  required  to  work  97 
To  fix  salaries  of  olhcers  - ~ 98 

liegulate  meeting  of  - - 161 

How  special  meetings  called  161 

No  business  transacted  except  special  - 162 

Rules  of  - - 162 

vStanding  committees  - - 165 

Try  contests  for  aldermanic  seats  - 173 

iViithorized  to  grant  dram  shop  license  - 200 

To  let  contracts  - --  287 

City  Comptroller  (see  clerk) 

City  Clerk 

Ordinances  deposited  in  office  of  ~ 14 

When  to  be  elected  - - 15 

To  notify  persons  elected  or  appointed  19 

May  call  special  election ; when  - - 19 


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City  Council  (Coiit.)  page. 

May  certify  ordinances  ‘ - 32 

File  oath  of  officers  - - 36 

Bond  to  be  liled  with  treasurer  - 36 

Receive  certificate  of  his  election  from  mayor  37 

^i^n  commission  to  officer  - 37 

Not  to  hold  other  office  - - 39 

Make  certified  copies,  etc  - 39 

Duties  of  - - ~ 39 

May  administer  oaths  - 41 

Give  receipt  to  collector  - - 47 

Perform  duties  of  comptroller  - 48 

Keep  record  of  bonds ; when  - - 50 

May  appoint  clerks  - - 50 

File  certified  copy  of  ordinance  levying  taxes  52 

Issue  warrants  for  special  assessments  - 68 

To  keep  seal,  records,  etc  - 151 

Duties  of  - - 151-152 

"When  balances  to  be  credited  to  city  funds  153 

Countersign  city  warrants,  etc  - 167 

To  deliver  dog  tags  - - 170 

Deliver  evidence  in  contested  elections  to  council  174 
Fees  - . - 175 

Ex-officers  member  board  of  health  190 

Countersign  licenses  - - 206 

Claims  to  be  filed  Avith  - 288 

Register  numbers  for  vehicles  - 291 

To  record  ordinances  - - 306 

City  Register 

Office  abolished  - - 6 

(fity  Surveyor 

Office  created ; bond  - - 158 


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INDEX. 


Ci  ty  Survey  or  ( Con  t . ) page  . 

Duties  of  ■ - - 159 

To  give  grades;  when,  etc  - - 159 

To  keep  record  - - 160 

Fees  - _ ‘ - 1()1 

To  survey  new  streets  - 161 

City  Treasurer 

When  to  be  elected  - 15 

Not  eligible  tor  two  terms  in  succession  15 

To  be  elected  - - 35 

Bond  of  - - 36 

Not  to  hob  I any  other  office  • - 39 

Books  subject  to  inspection  - 44 

Accounts,  how  kept;  give  receipts  - 44 

Monthly  statements,  voucher;  warrants  44 

Deposit  funds ; not  use  corporation  funds  45 

May  be  removed  - 45 

Annual  report  _ _ 45 

Warrants  on  - - 46 

Special  assessment  funds  - - 46 

Council  may  impose  duties  on  - 50 

May  appeal  to  finance  committee  - 50 

May  appoint  clerks  - - 50 

To  give  bonds  » - 156 

Duties  of  city  treasurer  - - 156 

City  treasurer  to  report;  when,  etc  156 

Fees  of  city  treasurer  - ^ 157 

How  warrants  drawn  on  treasurer  - 167 

Claims  (see  supplies  and  claims) 

(Compensation 

Uf  mayor  - - -40 

Of  alderman  . . 41 


INDEX. 


321) 


(\^inpensation,  (Cont.)  page. 

Of  other  officers  - - 41 

Of  collector  - - 71-155 

Not  allowed  library  director  - 83 

City  officers — how  fixed  - - 98 

Of  teachers;  power  to  fix,  etc  . 268 

Of  corporation  council  - - 151 

Of  city  treasurer  - - 157 

Of  city  surveyor  - - 161 

Board  of  health  - - 191 

Committees  : 

Standing  committees  appointed  by  mayor  165 

Duties  of  - - . - 166 

On  buildings ; consist  of  - 185 

On  public  improvements ; duty  - 282 

Contracts : 

Officers  not  to  be  interested  in  - 38 

Not  to  be  made  without  appropriation  - 43 

Paid  from  special  assessments  - 74 

How  let  - « _ 74 

How  made  for  joint  construction  of  sewers  105 

Supplies  to  be  purchased  under  time  contracts  287 

Corporation  Counsel: 

Mayor  may  appoint  - - 149 

Term  of  office  and  salary  - 150 

Duties  of  - - - 150 

When  additional  counsel  necessary  - 150 

Compensation,  etc  - - 151 

Corporate  Seal: 

Seal  established;  in  what  cases  to  be  used  157 

Remain  in  custody  of  clerk  - - 158 


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INDEX. 


PAGE. 

Disorderly  Houses: 

Power  to  restrain  - - 27 

Penalty  for  keeping*  - - 221 

Dogs  : 

Power  to  tax  - - 30 

Not  allowed  to  run  at  larofe  - 109 

Mayor ; to  give  notice  - - 169 

When  declared  a nuisance  . - 170 

Penalty  for  preventing  officers  - 170 

Dogs  to  be  licensed ; fee  - - 170 

Clerk  to  provide  necessary  tags  - 170 

Licensed  dogs  to  wear  collar  with  tags  171 

When  deemed  a nuisance;  how  abated  171 

Pound  keeper,  fees  - - 171 

Penalty  - - 171 

In  lieu  of  other  city  tax  - - 171 

License  not  to  permit  dogs  to  go  unmuzzled  172 

When  complaint  made  to  mayor  regarding  bites,  etc  172 
Drains : 

Power  to  construct  - - 24 

Obstructing  slough  drain  - 217 

When  bond  required  - - 224 

When  a nuisance  - - 226 

Obstructing  passage  of  water  - 280 


Draymen,  etc.,  (see  Vehicle): 

Dram  Shops  (see  Intoxicating  liquors.) 
Election  : 


For  incorporation  under  general  law  2 

For  organizing  a city  - - 3 

Of  city  officers  after  change  of  organization  4 

When  county  judge  may  give  notice  of  5 


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331 


Election,  (Cont.)  page. 

Record  of  results  of  election  . - 3 

Annual  election  - - 14 

Election  of  mayor,  etc  - - 15 

Who  entitled  to  vote  - - 15 

Wards  - - - 15 

Aldermen  at  hrst  election  • - 15 

Minority  representation  - - 16 

Aldermen  under  minority  plan  - 17 

Aldermen  when  minority  plan  not  adopted  18 

Place  and  notice  of  election  - • 18 

Manner  of  conducting,  etc  - 18 

Result;  tie  - - - 19 

Notice  to  persons  elected  or  appointed  19 

When  no  quorum  in  office  - - 19 

Special  election  - - 19 

Opening  and  closing  polls  - - 81 

How  election  oi  aldermen  may  be  contested  172 

Contest  heard  before  city  council;  statement  173 

Council  to  fix  time  and  place  for  depositions  173 

Proofs  to  be  filed  with  city  clerk  - 173 

Proofs  refered  to  committee  - 174 

When  election  declared  null  and  void  - 174 

Ballots  may  be  opened  in  contest  - 174 

Excavations; 

Permit  and  bond  required  - - 224 

To  be  protected,  etc  - - 281 

Ex[)enditures : 

Not  to  exceed  appropriations  - 42 

Not  to  be  made  without  appropriation  43 

East  Driving  : 

Power  to  regulate  - - 22 


332 


INDEX. 


Fast  Driving,  (Cont.)  page. 

On  bridge  - - 123-141 

Prohibited;  penalty  of  - - 215 

Fees: 

To  be  reported  by  city  officers  - - 41 

Pound  keeper  - - 134 

For  billiard  and  pool  table  license  • 140 

Of  city  collector  - - 155 

Of  city  treasurer  - - 157 

Of  city  surveyor  - - 161 

For  dog  license  - - 170 

For  impounding  dog's  - - 171 

Of  city  clerk  - - - 175 

Of  oil  inspector  - - 235 

For  pawnbrokers  license  - - 235 

For  peddlers  license  - - 238 

For  porters  and  runner license  - 249 

Of  porter  and  runners  - - 251 

For  scavenger  license  - - 250 

Of  scavengers  - - 251 

Tuition  fees  to  be  paid  into  treasury  • 270 

For  circus  and  show  license  - 271 

For  shooting' gallery  license  - - 273 

For  vehicle  license  - - 291 

Allowed  to  teamsters,  draymen,  etc  - 293 

Allowed  hackmen,  etc  - - 293 

For  sprinkler  license  - - 295 

Of  scales,  weights  and  measures  - 302 

Of  inspector  wood  - - 304 

Fire  Department : 

Fire  department  to  consist  of  - - 175 


Compensation  officers  and  members  hxed  by  council  175 


INDEX. 


333 


Fire  Department,  (Coni.)  page. 

Fire  marshal  subject  to  mayor  and  council  176 

Fire  marshal  appointment  - - 177 

Engineers  and  drivers  to  remain  at  engine  houses  177 
Mayor  and  tire  marshal  to  appoint  tiremen  177 

Mayor  and  fire  marshal  control  fire  department  177 
Fire  marshal  to  control  fire  engines,  etc  177 

Cit}^  council  direct  payment  of  funds  - 177 

When  not  permitted  to  go  out  of  city  with  engines  177 
Fire  marshal  to  keep  certain  books  - 178 

Fire  marshal  to  have  control  of  police  at  fires  178 

Fire  marshal  to  examine  buildings  - 178 

Penalty  for  refusing  to  make  reports  ■ 179 

No  vehicle  to  be  driven  over  improteeted  hose  179 
Fire  marshal  to  designate  person  to  have  charge 

in  his  absence  . - - 180 

Gunpowder  dealers  to  report  fire  to  marshal  180 

Direction  for  use  of  stores  - 180 

How  stoves  and  pipes  shall  be  placed  and  protected  180 
Duties  of  mayor,  aldermen,  chief  of  police,  etc  181 
No  hay  or  straiv  shall  be  placed  ~ 181 

Stacking  hay  or  straw  - • 181 

Lighted  candles  or  lamps  in  barns  - 181 

Fires  not  to  be  kindled  in  streets  or  alleys  182 

Penalty  for  violating  - - 182 

Duty  of  officers  to  see  ordinance  obeyed  182 

Finances : 

Power  of  council  to  control  - --  20 

Fiscal  year  - - 42 

Annual  appropriation  - - 42 

Appropriation  not  to  be  increased  except,  etc  42 

May  borrow  money  for  exigency  - 42 


334 


INDEX. 


Finances,  (Cont.)  page. 

Contracting  liabilities  limited  - 43 

Duty  of  treasurer  - - - 44-156 

Warrants  and  voucher  hied;  register  44 

Deposit  of  funds,  etc  - - 45 

Treasurer’s  annual  report  - T5 

Warrants  - - -46 

Special  assessment  funds  kept  seperate  46 

Duties  of  city  collector  - - 46-153 

Collector’s  report ; publication  - 47 

Collector  not  to  detain  money  - 47 

Comptroller;  powers  and  duties  - 48 

Financial  duties  of  city  clerk  - 49-151 

Bond ; record  to  be  kept  - - 5b 

Further  duties  may  be  required  of  officers  50 

Finance  committee  adjust  controversies,  etc  50 

Who  may  appoint  subordinates  - 50 

Foreign  insurance  companies  51 

Borrowing  money  on  tax  warrants  - 168 

Fines : 

For  creating  nuisances  - - 20 

Ordinance  imposing  to  be  published  - 32 

Suits  for  recovery  of  - - 33 

Paid  into  treasury  - - 33 

Commitment  for  non  payment  of  . - 33 

How  action  brought  to  recover  - 81 

May  be  imposed  to  compel  labor  on  the  streets  84 

Violating  oil  inspection  laws  - 84 

For  violating  ordinances  - - ^6 

I’o  be  paid  into  city  treasurer  - 248 


INDEX . 


335 


PAGE. 

Fire  Limits: 

Defining  fire  Limits,  - - - 1S2 

Defining  how  buildings  shall  be  erected,  184 

Sheds,  privies,  deposit  of  ashes,  - - 185 

AVooden  buildings,  removal,  repairs,  etc.,  186 

Amount  of  damages — referred  to  committee,  186 

Penalty  for  violation,  - - - 187 

What  buildings  declared  a nuisance,  - 187 

Plans  of  buildings — submitted  to  committee,  185 

Who  constitute  the  building  committee  185 

Committee  to  examine  plans,  etc.  - 186 

Fiscal  Year: 

Fixing  of  - - - - 188 

FI  agmen : 

Power  to  require,  etc.  - . - 23 

Places  where  required  - - 253-4 

Penalty  for  violation  - - - 255 

Procedure  for  erection  of  gates  - 257 

Forms : 

Of  ballots  at  election  for  organizing  - 2 

Of  ordinances  - - - 32 

Of  official  oath  - - - 3(> 

Of  petition  for  condemnation  of  property,  etc.  55 
Of  oath  of  commissioner  to  make  assessment  62 

Of  notice  to  owner,  of  assessment  - 64 

Of  notice  of  assessment  for  publication  65 

Of  special  assessment  warrant  » • 68 

Of  collector’s  notice  of  special  assessment  68 

Of  justice’s  execution  * - 244 


336 


INDEX. 


G 

PAGE. 

Gaminir : 

Power  to  suppress  - - - 25 

Prohibited  r - - ' - 211 

Penalty  - - - 212 

Inmates  of  garni n«f  houses  - - - 213 

Billiard  rooms,  etc;  minors  not  allowed  in  213 

Grade'S ; 

Power  to  compel  railroads  to  conform  to  23 

City  surveyor  to  give  grade,  where,  etc.,  159 

Grade  book  to  be  kept  by  city  surveyor  160 

Gunpowder : 

GunpoAvder;  how  and  where  stored  - 188 

Certain  quantity  may  be  kept  by  retailers  189 

Duty  of  mayor  to  search  for  powder  • 189 

Gutters  : 

Power  to  regulate  - - - 22-27 

Not  to  be  obstructed  - - - 280 

H 

Hay: 

Market  - 305 

Hacks  (see  Vehicles). 

Health; 

Enforcement  of  ordinances  concerning  13 


INDEX. 


337 


Health,  (Cent.)  page. 

Board  of  health  to  consist  of  - - 19Q 

Division  of  districts;  salary  - - 191 

Duties  of  chief  of  police  - - 191 

Board  to  exercise  supervision  - - 191 

Xeglect  to  comply  with  order  of  board  192 

Persons  removed  tor  contagious  disea.ses  192 

l^enalty  for  bringing  persons,  etc.,  contagious 

disease  - - - 192 

No  resident,  etc.,  to  leave  infected  house  192 

Exposing  infected  clothing,  penalty  - 193 

Powers  in  regard  to  boats  and  vessels  - 193 

Penalty  for  refusing  board  to  enter  houses  194 

Board  may  require  vaccination  - - 194 

Board  to  make  rules  for  government  of  quarantine  194 
Power  of  board  to  abate  nuisances,  penalty  195 

No  privy  to  be  cleaned  till  disinfected  - 195 

.Board  to  require  vaccination  - - 193 

Persons  prohibited  offering  tainted  meat  193 

Unlawful  to  slaughter  bruised  animals  193 

When  unlawful  to  transport  meat  - 19(> 

Unlawful  to  transport  bones  and  meat  uncovered  197 
Unlawful  to  sell  skimmed  milk  - - 197 

Board  to  exercise  a sanitary  supervision  198 

Board  and  council  to  define  nuisance  198 

Persons  required  to  obey  board  of  health  198 

Physicians  to  report,  penalty  - - 198 

Board  to  examine  accounts  and  report  199 

Board  to  keep  account  of  expenses  - 199 

Unlawful  to  keep  hogs  penned  - - 199 

In  absence  of  president,  board  to  elect  chai]*nian  191> 


338 


INDEX. 


Hogs  : 

Not  allowed  to  run  at  large 
Penalty,  etc.  * - - - 

Unlawful  to  keep  hogs  in  certain  districts 
Butchers  not  slaughter  in  city  - 
When  hog  pen  a nuisance 
Horses : 

Unlawful  to  run  at  large;  penal U' 
Proceeds  of  sale 
Redeeming,  on  payment  fees  - 
Penalty  for  exhibiting  stud  horses  - 
Cruelty  to ; penalty  - ^ 

Fast  driving  _ - - 

To  be  hitched  _ ^ . 

Penalty  for  frightening  - - 

Houses : 

Of  ill-fame ; power  to  suppress 
Power  to  establish  houses  of  correction 
Prisoners  to  work,  etc.  - 

Of  ill-fame  licensing  prohibited 
How  numbered  - - 

How  constructed  in  fire  limits  - 

I ^ 

Of  ill-fame,  penalty  for  keeping 
Gaming  prohibited  - 

Disorderly,  penalty  for  keeping 
Officers  may  enter  - - 


PAGE. 


131 

199 

208 

225 


131-132 

133 

133 

210 

211 

215 

210 

210 


25 

28 

34 

82 

140 

184 

210 

211 

212 

213 


imprisonment: 
Term  of 


I 


- 34,  97,245' 


INDKX. 


339 


Imprisonment,  (Cont.)  page. 

When  arrested,  on  Sunday,  etc  - - 135 

Improvements  : 

When  made  by  general  tax  - - 60 

When  made  by  special  tax  - - 60 

Apportion  assessments  for  _ _ 03 

To  be  let  by  contract  - - - 74 

Committee  on  public  improvements  - 282 

Duty  of  ^ - - 282,  283,  284 

Inspector  of  oils  (see  oil  inspector.) 

Inspector  of  weights  and  measures  (see  weights 
and  m.easures.) 

Insuranee : 

Tax  on  foreign  companies  - - - v 51 

Intoxicating  liquors: 

Unlawful  to  sell  without  license  - - 200 

City  council  authorized  to  grant  licenses  - 200 

No  license  to  be  granted  to  an  intemperate  man 

or  gambler  - ' - - - 202 

Licenses  to  name  the  person  and  place,  where  202 
Licenses  to  be  posted  up  - - - 203 

When  the  mayor  to  issue  proclamation  - 203 

Minors  prohibited  from  frequenting  - - 204 

Playing  of  musical  instruments,  etc,,  unlawful  204 

J 

•Judgment: 

Provide  for  payment  of  - - - 43 

In  condemnation  proceedings  - - 58-59 

In  special  assessment  _ 66-67 


340 


INDEX . 


eJiiclgment,  (Cont.)  page. 

Oil  special  tax  for  sidewalks  - - J03 

Jurisdiction: 

Territorial,  of  council  - - - 13 

General  powers  of  council  - - . 20 

Over  cemeteries  - - - 20 

Over  packing  houses,  residences,  etc*  - 30 

Of  justices  of  the  peace,  etc.  - - 34 

Of  council  over  water  - - 34 

Of  police  magistrates  _ ^ c)4 

K. 

Kites : 

Flying  prohibited  - - - 210 

L. 

Lamps  r 

Breaking,  etc.  - ^ - 217 

Carrying  away  street  sign  - 217 

When  obstructed  by  trees-  - - 280 

Landings  and  Levees : 

May  be  leased,  etc.  - - 84 

Library : 

Establishment ; tax ; fund  “ - 85 

Appointment  of  directors  - - 8G 

Term  of  office  ^ removal  - - 80 

Vacancies;  compensation  _ ^ 86 

Organization;  power  of  directors;  funds  86 

Who  may  use  library  _ _ 87 

Keport  of  directors  - - - 88 

Penalties;  donations  - 88 


INDEX . 


341 


Library,  (Cont.)  page. 

Penalty  for  injuring’  or  destroying  books  or 

property  - _ _ 252 

Penalty  for  failure  to  return  books  to  library  253 

Fines  collected ; how  applied  - - 253 

Licenses : v 

Liquor  license  not  to  extend  beyond  year  - 25 

Power  to  issue  ...  - 25-31 

Revocation  of  saloon  license  - - 202 

Subject  to  ordinances,  etc.  - - 205 

Rot  assignable  . . - _ 205 

For  what  time  granted,  how  issued,  etc.  200 

Liquor  (See  Intoxicating  Liquor.) 

% 

M 

Markets : 

Butchers  to  be  licensed  - • - 206 

Sale  of  fresh  meat  to  be  licensed;  penalty  207 

Sale  of  unwholesome  meat  prohibited ; penalty  207 
Meats  to  be  AVeighed;  penalty  - 207 

Stalls  to  be  kept  clean;  tilth  not  deposited  -•  207 

Duties  of  ma}mr  and  health  officers  - 208 

Butchers  shall  not  slaughter  cattle , city  - 208 

Duty  of  mayor  and  health  officer  Avhen  combi- 
nation . - . - 208 

When  license  expires  - - 200 

Word  butcher  defined  - . _ 200 

Mayor  : 

Give  notice  of  election  - - - 7 

Qualifications  of  - - - 7 


:U2 


INDEX. 


Mayor,  (Cont.)  page. 

Vacancy  in  office  of,  how  filled  - - 7 

Temporary  absence  of ; msiy or  pro  te7u,  - 8 

Vacancy  by  removal  from  city  - - 8 

Mayor  to  preside ; casting  vote  - 8 

When  he  may  remove  officers  - - 8 

Powers  to  keep  peace  - - - 9 

May  release  prisoners  - - - 9 

Duties  of;  enforce  ordinances  - - 9 

i\Iay  examine  books  of  city  officers  - - 9 

Messages  to  council  , . - 9 

May  call  out  militia  to  suppress  riot,  etc.  - 10 

Misconduct  of  mayor  or  other  officer  - 10 

May  appoint  person  to  revise  ordinanjces  - 10 

May  call  special  meeting  of  city  council  14,  161 

May  veto  ordinances  or  items  therein  - 14 

When  to  be  elected  - - - 15 

May  call  special  election ; when  - - 19 

To  be  elected  _ , - 35 

Bond  of;  oath  - - - - 36 

Not  to  hold  other  office  - - 39 

Conservator  of  peace  . - - - 40 

Compensation  of  - - 40 

May  administer  oaths  - - 41 

To  approve  contracts  - - - 74 

Appoint  directors  public  libraiy  - 86 

May  remove  director  public  library  - - 86 

May  prohibit  use  of  public  buildings  - 95 

\ppoint  standing  committees  - - 165 

Sign  warrants  on  treasurer  - - 167 

Issue  proclamation  respecting  dogs  - ' - 169 

Mayor  and  fire  marshal  appoint  firemen  - 177 


INDEX. 


Mayor,  (Com.)  page. 

May  revoke  liquor  license  - - - 202 

Sign  all  licenses  ^ - - - 20(> 

Approve  bond  for  excavating  in  streets,  etc.  224 

Appoint  officers  _ . - 230 

Head  ot  police  department  - - 239 

Cause  obstruction  on  sidewalks  removed  - 275 

Approve  Vehicle  bonds  - - - 291 

Acting  mayor;  power,  etc.  - - 307 

Maps  and  Plats  : 

To  be  appro v^ed  by  council  “ - 79 

When  to  be  made  by  city  surveyor  - - 159 

To  be  kept  by  city  surveyor  - - 130 

Meetings  : 

Mayor  to  preside  at  council  - - 8 

City  council  - _ - _ i()i 

By  whom  special  may  be  called  - 161 

Board  of  health  - - * - 190 

Of  school  board  ^ _ 266 

Minors: 

Prohibited  from  frequenting  billiard  rooms,  etc  140 
Prohibited  from  frequenting  tippling  houses  21^ 

Unlawful  to  receive  property  from  - 213 

Minority  representation: 

When  submitted  to  electors  - - ir> 

Misdemeanors. 

Penalty  for  being  intoxicated  - - 209 

Penalty  for  swimming  and  bathing  - 210 

Studhorses;  penalty  for  exhibiting  - 210 

Houses  of  ill  fame^  penalty  for  keeping  - 210 

Indecent  exposure;  penalty  for  - - 210 

Animals ; penalty  for  beating  - - 211 


344 


INDEX. 


Misdemeanors,  (Coiit.)  page. 

Gaming  prohibited  _ _ _ 211 

Ordinance;  construction  of  - - 211 

Disorderly  and  gaming  houses  - - 212 

Gaming;  penalty  for  gambling  - 212 

Disorderly  houses ; olhcers  may  enter  , - 212 

Inmates  prostitution  or  gaming  houses  213 

Minors  in  billiard  rooms,  etc.;  prohibited  213 

Bitches;  penalty  for  running  at  large  213 

Unlawful  to  receive  from  minors  - 213 

Penal t}^  for  renting  houses  of  ill  fame  - 214 

Firearms  not  to  be  used  in  the  city  - 215 

Fast  driving  prohibited  _ _ - 215 

Poison  not  to  be  sold  unless  labeled  - 215 

Scaffolds  to  be  properly  erected  - - 215 

Kites;  penalty  for  flying  in  streets  - 216 

Stones;  penalty  for  throwing  - - 216 

Horses  to  be  hitched  - - 216 

Draymen,  etc.,  to  fasten  wheel  - - 216 

Horses ; penalty  for  frightening  - 216 

Breaking  or  obstructing  public  lamps  - 217 

Persons  meeting  in  vehicles  to  turn  to  the  right  217 
Cellar  dot>rs  to  be  kept  closed  - 217 

Obstructions  in  slough  drain  - - 217 

Unlawful  to  wash  buggies,  etc.,  at  public  wells  218 
Where  omnibuses  are  prohibited  from  stopping  218 
Stands  for  drays  and  other  vehicles  - 218 

Unlawful  to  mar  or  injure  fences,  etc  - 218 

All  cases  of  assault  - • 21D 

Disturbance  of  peace  by  various  means  - 219 

Disorderly  conduct;  fighting,  etc  - 220 

Penalty  for  urg'ing  dogs  to  fight  - - 220 


INDEX. 


345 


Misdemeanors,  (Cont.)  page. 

Religious  worship ; penalty  for  disturbing  221 

^ Kinging  of  bells,  etc.;  penalty  for  221 

Disorderly  houses,  etc. ; penalty  for  keeping  221 

Obstructing  public  places  - - 221 

Police;  special  duty  of;  power  to  arrest  222 

Interfering  with  fire  or  police  alarm  - 222 

Unlawful  to  have  in  possession  burglar’s  nippers,etc  222 
Drains,  etc. ; penalty  for  digging  - - 223 

Stones  and  gravel  where  not  to  be  removed  223 

Sidewalks  not  to  be  injured;  penalty  therefor  223 
Animals  not  to  be  fastened  to  fences,  trees,  etc  224 
Bridges,  engine  houses,  etc.;  penalty  for  injuring  224 
Bond  required  for  excavation,  etc  - 224 

Magistrates  may  imprison  - - 225 

Municipal  year: 

Defined  - > - _ 80 

Musical  instruments; 

Not  to  be  played  in  dram  shop  - - 205 

When  playing  a nuisance  - - 221 


N 

Night  scavengers  (see  Scavengers), 

Notices; 

Of  election  for  organization  - - 2 

Of  election  after  change  of  organization  4 

Of  general  election  - * , 18 

To  be  given  elected  officers  - 19 

Of  special  elections . * - - 19 


346 


INDEX. 


Notices  ( Cont.)  page. 

Of  special  assessments  - - - 64 

For  collection  of  special  assessments  - ^68 

Of  board  of  health  - - 192,  263 


Nuisances : 

Power  to  define  and  abate  - - 29 

Nuisances  defined  _ _ - 225 

What  shall  be  deemed  a nuisance;  penalty  226 

Cellars,  drains,  etc.,  to  be  cleaned  - 226 

Distilleries,  etc.,  not  to  allow  nuisances  226 

Nuisances  ;'penalty  for  allowing  on  grounds  226 

Soap  boilers;  penalty  for  keeping  on  premises  227 
Tanneries,  etc  - 227 

Dead  animals  on  river  bank  to  be  removed  227 

Must  not  deposit  filth,  offal,  etc.,  in  the  city  227 

Must  not  discharge  offensive  substances  in  river  228 
Not  place  dead  animals  in  the  city  - 228 

Owners  of  dead  animals  to  remove  the  same  228 

Health  officers ; duty  of  - - - 229 

Owners  to  be  assessed  for  abatement  of  229 

Charges  for  removing;  how  collected  - 229 

Nuisances  to  be  removed  by  health  officers  230 

Penalty  for  refusing  to  obey  orders  - 230 

Jurisdiction  in  offenses  known  as  nuisances  230 

Numbering  buildings: 

How  numbered,  etc  - . - - 146 


O 

Oath: 

Of  all  city  officers  - ' - - 36 


INDEX. 


347 


Oath,  (Cont.)  page. 

Mayor  and  city  clerk  may  administer  - 41 

Of  commissioner’s  special  assessment  - h2 

Officers : 

Election  after  change  of  organization  4 

Term  of  first  officers  - - « 5 

How  removed  and  restored  • - ^ 

Misconduct  and  malfeasance  - “ Id 

Their  powers  and  duties  ~ - Id 

Officers  of  the  city  - * - 35 

Council  may  create  or  discontinue  certain  offices  35 
Marshal,  his  duties  - ~ * 35 

Appointment  and  vacancies  of  officers  35-36 

Duties  and  term  of  appointive  officers  36 

Oath  of  office ; bond  - - - 36 

Commission,  delivery  of  books,  etc.,  to  successor  37 
Qualifications  - - - - 37 

Officers  not  to  be  interested  in  contracts  38-89 

Bribery;  penalty  . - - 38-89 

Mayor,  etc.,  not  to  hold  other  office  - 39 

Duties  of  clerk  - - - 39 

Conservators  of  the  peace;  powers  ~ 40 

Compensation  of;  fees  ^ ~ 40-41 

Contracting  liabilities;  limited  ~ 43 

Authorized  to  attend  tax  sales  - - 72 

Appeal  to  finance  committee  - - 50 

VV^ho  may  appoint  subordinates  - - 50 

Penalty  for  obtaining  contracts  or  bribery  90 

vSalaries;  how  fixed,  etc  - - 98 

The  mayor  to  appoint,  council  to  <x)nfirm  230 

To  give  bonds  _ _ _ 231 

K^ualificaition  of  police  officer  - 241 


348 


INDEX. 


PAGE. 

Present  requisition  for  supplies,  etc  - 287 

Oil: 

Inspector  to  be  appointed ; term  of  office  91,  234 

Oath  and  bond  - - - 91,  234 

Inspector  to  test  - - 92,234 

Test;  mark;  inspector  not  to  trade  in  92,  235 

Record  _ _ _ _ 92,  235 

Penalty  for  misconduct  of  inspector  93,  235 

Penalties  on  dealers  - - 93 

Fines,  how  recovered  and  disposed  of  93 

Unlawful  to  keep  certain  quantity  232 

How  to  be  kept  by  dealers  - - 232 

Penalty  for  violation  _ _ - 233 

Inspector;  how  appointed  - - 234 

Fees  of  inspector  - - • 23b 

Ordinances; 

Kot  annulled  by  change  of  organization  5 

Mayor  must  see  that  they  are  executed  9 

Uequire  concurrence  of  a majority  of  all  aldermen  13 
Take  effect  if  not  signed,  etc  - - 14 

How  passed  over  veto  - - . 14 

Style  of  • - ~ - 32 

When  takes  effect  - - - 32 

Proof  of  - - . « 32 

Suits  for  violating  - - - 33 

Jurisdiction  in  cases  under  - - 34 

Violation  of,  how  punished  - - 33-34 

To  be  recorded;  evidence  of,  etc  - 39 

Who  may  make  arrests  for  violation  of  40 

Making  appropriations  - - 42 

Levying  tax  - _ - 52 


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349 


Ordinances,  (Cont.)  page. 

For  improvement  by  special  assessment  55 

When  property  is  taken  for  improvement  55 

For  local  improvements ; sidewalks  - 61 

Power  to  pass  concerning  libraries  - 38 

Arrest  and  imprisonment  for  violation  of  96 

For  sidewalks  - - 99 

For  sidewalks  to  be  published,  etc  - - 100 

To  be  drawn  by  city  attorney,  etc  - 148-150 

Ordinances  to  be  recorded ; publication  - 306 

Pepealing  ordinances;  when  to  take  effect  306 

Concerning  same  offense  under  different  clauses  306 
Construction  of  words  - ^ 307 

Penalties  in  cases  not  provided  for  • - 307 

Acting  mayor  to  have  full  powers;  reasonable 

time  and  notice  defined  - - 307 

Adopting  revised  ordinances  - - 308 

Repealing  section ; authentication  - - 310 

When  to  take  effect  - - - 310 

P 

Pawnbrokers : 

Power  to  license  ...  25 

Defined  -----  236 

To  procure  license  - - - 236 

City  council  to  grant  licenses  - - 236 

To  keep  register  - - - 237 

Peddler  : 

Power  to  license  - - - - 25 

Peddlers  defined  - . > 237 


INDEX. 


Peddler,  (Cont.)  page. 

To  procure  license  - - - 238 

Mayor  to  grant  license  - - 238 

Time  license  may  be  granted,  name  and  - 238 

Name  and  number  placed  on  vehicle  - 238 

Ordinance;  how  construed  - - 238 

Penalty : 

Misconduct,  mayor  or  other  officer  - 10 

Ordinance  imposing,  to  be  published  ' - 32 

Suits  for  recovering,  etc.  - - 33 

For  bribery,  etc.  - - - 3^ 

On  toreign  insurance  companies  - 51 

On  collector  for  not  givingnotice  of  special  as- 
sessment _ - . 69 

For  returning  paid  tax  delinquent  - - 71 

Aldermen  or  other  officers  interested  in  city 

contracts  - - - - 90 

For  not  having  oil  inspected  - - 03 

Violatino- act  concerning’ buildings  - \ - 9b 

For  violation  of  ordinances  - 96 

For  fast  driving  on  b.  idges  - 123-141 

For  animals  running  at  large  - - 132 

For  breaking  open  city  pound  - - 133 

For  hindering  officer  taking  animal  to  pound  134 

For  resisting  officers  _ - - 137 

For  false  representation  as  an  officer  - 137 

To  auction  without  license  - - 138 

Auctioneer  guilty  of  trick  or  device  - 139 

For  running  billiard  tables,  etc.,  without  license  140 
For  keeping  billiard  rooms  open  Sundays,  and 

after  11  p.  m.  - - 141 

Driving  more  than  ten  cattle  across  bridge  141 


INDEX. 


351 


Penalty,  (Cont.)  page 

Stopping  on  bridges  - - - 142 

Assembling  on  bridges  > - - 142 

Escaping  from,  or  destroying  bridewell  property  144 
Interfering  with  bridewell  keeper  - 145 

For  neglecting  or  refusing  to  number  buildings  148 
For  dogs  to  run  at  large  - - 170 

Preveutino:  officers  enforcinof  doff  ordinance  170 

For  unlicensed  dogs  - - 171 

For  refusing  to  obey  fire  marshal  in  ordering 

repairs  on  building  - - 179 

For  driving  vehicle  over  fire  hose  - - 179 

hieglect  of  dealers  in  gunpowder- to  report  180 

For  violating  fire  ordinances;  regulations  - 182 

For  violating  fire  limit  ordinance  - 187 

For  keeping  gunpowder  - - - 188 

' For  bringing  persons,  etc.,  with  contagious 

disease  . > . _ 192 

For  leaving  infected  house  - - 192 

For  exposing  infected  clothing  - - 193 

Making  false  statement  to  board  of  health  re- 
garding boats,  etc  - 194 

For  refusing  board  of  health  to  enter  houses,  etc  194 

For  refusing  to  be  vaccinated  - - 194 

For  refusing  to  comply  with  order  board  of  health  195 
Cleaning  privy,  before  same  disinfected  - 195 

For  selling  tainted  meat  - - 193 

Slaughtering  bruised  or  maimed  animals  - 19(i 

Transporting  meat,  etc.,  through  city  uncovered  193 
I'ransporting  bones  and  grease  through  city 

uncovered  - - - 197* 

For  selling  skimmed  milk  - - 197 


352 


rSTDEX. 


Penalty,  (Cont.)  page. 

For  disobeying  regulations  of  board  of  health  198 
Physicians  not  reporting  to  board  of  health  198 

For  keeping  hogs ; certain  districts  - 199 

For  selling  intoxicating  liquors  without  license  200 
For  keeping  open  Sundays,  and  later  than  11  p.  ni.  202 
For  not  posting  up  license  in  cons[)icuous  place  203 
Not  closing  dram  shops  upon  proclamation  of 

mayor  _ _ _ 204 

Minors  frequenting  tippling  houses  204 

Playing  of  musical  instruments  in  saloons,  etc  204 
Sale  of  meat  without  license  - - 207 

Selling  unwholesome  meat  - “ 207 

For  selling  meats  by  incorrect  weights  - 207 

For  depositing  filth  in  street  - - 2*)7 

For  hindering  mayor  and  health  officers  - 208 

For  slaughtering  cattle  within  the  city  limits  208 

For  forestalling  price  of  meats  - 208 

For  being  intoxicated  _ - 209 

For  swimming  and  bathing  - - 210 

For  exhibiting  stud  horses,  etc.  - - 210 

For  keeping  house  of  ill-fame  210 

For  indecent  exposure  _ - - 210 

For  cruelty  to  animals  - - 211 

For  gambling  - - - - 212 

For  being  an  inmate  of  disorderly  and  gaming 

houses  _ _ _ - 212 

Preventing  ofiicers  from  entering  gaming  houses  212 
Inmates  of  prostitution  or  gaming  houses  213 

For  keepers  of  gaming  rooms  allowing  minors 
• therein  - - -*  213 

For  bitches  running  at  large  - - 213 


INDEX. 


358 


i^enalty,  (Cont.)  • page 

For  receiving  property  from  minors  - 213 

For  renting  buildings  for  houses  of  ill-fame  214 

Discharging  firearms  within  the  city  - 215 

For  fast  dr i vino-  - - - 215 

For  selling  poison  without  marking  same  215 

For  erecting  unsafe  scaffolds  - - 215 

For  flying  kites  in  street  ~ 21() ' 

For  throwing  stones  - - - 21(i 

For  leaving  horses  unhitched  - - 216 

For  draymen,  etc.,  not  chaining  wheels  - 216 

For  frightening  horses  - - 216 

For  breaking  or  obstructing  public  lamps  - 217 

For  not  turning  to  right,  with  meeting  vehicles  217 
Leaving  trap  doors  open  - - 217 

Obstructions  in  slough  drain  - “ 217 

Washing  buggies,  etc,,  at  public  wells  - 218 

For  omnibus  and  hack  to  stop  on  Jefferson 

street  near  depot  - - - 218 

For  drays,  etc.,  to  stand  on  streets,  excepting 

as  provided  - - 218 

Injuring  fences,  posts,  etc.  - - 218 

For  assault  and  battery  - - - 219 

For  disturbing  the  peace  - - 219 

For  disorderly  conduct,  fighting,  etc.  - 220 

For  ur^inof  doofs  to  fiofht  - 220 

For  disturbing  religious  worship  - - 221 

For  ringing  of  bells,  etc.  - - 221 

For  keeping  disorderly  houses,  etc,  - 221 

For  obstructing  street  corner  or  public  places  221 
For  interfering  with  fire  or  police  alarms  - 222 


354 


INDEX. 


Penalty,  (Cont.)  page. 

For  having  in  unlawful  possession  burglar  nip 

pers,  etc.  - - - _ 222 

For  digging  in  streets,  etc.  - - 223 

For  removing  material  from  streets  - 223 

P"or  injuring  pavement,  drain,  etc.  - 223 

For  fastening  animals  to  fences,  etc  - 224 

For  injuring  bridges  or  ppblic  property  - 224 

Further  penalties  for  misdemeanors  - 223 

For  hog  pen  nuisances  _ _ - 223 

For  posting  bills  on  building  without  permission  223 
For  cellar,  privy,  vault,  etc.,  nuisance,  - 223 

For  distillers,  tanners,  stable,  etc.,  nuisance  223 

For  allowing  nuisance  on  grounds  - 223 

For  keeping  or  using  stale  grease,  etc.  - 227 

For  keeping  a foul  or  otfensive  yard  or  building  227 
For  allowing  dead  animals  to  lie  upon  street, 

etc.  - ^ - - 227-228 

For  depositing  filth,  etc.,  in  the  city  - 227 

For  discharging  offensive  substance  in  the 

river,  etc.  - _ _ _ 228 

For  refusal  of  owner  of  dead  animals  to  remove 

same  _ _ _ _ 228 

For  refusing  to  obey  order  of  board  of  health 

reo-ardinof  nuisance  - - - 230 

For  neglect  to  give  notice  to  oil  inspector  233 

For  oil  inspector  giving  false  bramd  - 235 

For  running  pawn  shop  without  license  233 

For  peddling  without  license  - - 238> 

For  wagon  of  peddler  not  having  number,  etc.  238 

For  re&isting  police  officer  - - 241 

For  refusing  to  assist  police  officer  - 242’ 


mbEX% 


355 


Penalty,  (Cont.)  page. 

How  imposed  by  police  magistrate  - 244 

For  prisoners  refusing  to  work  ^ ^ 24fi 

For  neglect  of  police  magistrate  to  report  248 

For  violation  of  porter  and  runner  ordinance  252 

For  injuring  or  destroying  books,  etc.,  of  pub-- 

lie  library  - - - 252 

For  failing  to  return  books  of  library  - 253 

For  violation  by  railroads  of  flagman  ordinance  255 
For  running  trains  in  city  exceedino  six  miles 

per  hour  - - - ^ • 255 

For  trains  stopping  on  crossing  255 

For  locomotive  whistling  - - 255 

For  opening  of  cylinder  cocks  - 256 

For  getting  on  cars  in  motion  - - 256 

For  encumbering  the  court  house  square  with  cars  257 
For  railroad  neglecting  to  erect  gates,  etc.  258 

For  engaging  in.  scavenger  business  without 

license  . ^ ^ 259-262 

For  removing  contents  of  privy  without  permit  260 
For  removing  contents  of  vaults  during  day-time  261 
For  refusal  to  have  offal,  swill,  etc.,  removed  263 

For  violating  show  and  exhibition  ordinance  272 

For  running  shooting  galleries  without  license  272 
For  keeping  shooting  gallery  in  uninclosed  place  273 
For  obstructing  sidewalks  - - 273-4 

For  driving  on  sidewalks  - - 274 

For  signs,  etc.,  over  sidewalks  - - 274 

For  obstructing  crosswalks  - - 274 

For  maintaining  spikes  on  or  near  sidewalk  275 

For  encumbering  streets  - - - 276 

For  wagons,  etc.,  standing  on  streets  - 278 


356 


INDEX. 


Penalty,  (Cont.)  page. 

For  removing  building  without  permit  - 278 

For  ere(‘tiiig  building  on  street,  alley,  etc.  - 279 

For  obstructing  street  or  alley  - - 279 

For  depositing  dirt,  straw,  etc.,  on  street  or  alley  280 
For  obstructing  passage  of  w^ater  - - 280 

For  removing  material  from  street  - 281 

For  leaving  excavations  unprotected  - 281 

For  setting  telegraph  poles,  etc.,  without  permit  282 
For  trees  obstructing  public  lamps  - 289 

For  neglect! im  to  trim  trees  on  street  - 289 

For  neglecting  to  place  number  on  licensed 

vehicle  - - - - 291 

For  refusing  to  carry  persons  - - 292 

For  using  indecent  language,  etc.  *.  292 

For  taking  a larger  fee  than  allowed  - 294 

For  running  vehicle  without  license  - 294 

For  vagrancy  - - - - 297 

For  hindering  inspector  of  weights  and  measures  301 
For  using  weights,  etc.,  not  inspected  - 303 

For  selling  wood  unlawfully  - 305 

In  cases  where  penalty  not  stated  - - 307 

Petroleum  (See  Oil.) 

Police : 

Conservators  of  the  peace;  powers  - 40 

Police  department  established  - - 239 

The  mayor  to  be  head  of  police  - 239 

Duties  of  chief  of  police  - - - 240 

Mayor  may  remove ; term  of  office  - 240 

Authority  to  serve  warrants  • - 240 

, Officers;  penalty  for  fraud,  etc.;  mayor  shall 

be  removed  _ _ - 241 


INDEX. 


357 


Police,  (Cont.)  page. 

Qualifications  of  officers  - - 241 

Penalty  for  resisting,  etc.  - - 241 

All  persons  to  assist  officers;  penalty  for  re- 

fusinof  _ _ _ . 242 

Office 'at  police  headquarters;  records,  etc.  242 

Regulation  uniform,  etc.  - - - 243 

Police  Magistrate  : 

Authorizing  election  of;  term  - - 94 

AVhere  suits  to  be  bought  - - 243 

Proceedings  before  - - 243-248 

To  tax  costs  _ . _ 247 

Fees  allowed  - 247 

To  act  as  police  court  - - 248 

To  report  monthly;  penalty  - - 248 

AVhen  costs  not  allowed  - - 248 

Pool  tables  (See  Billiards.) 

Porters  and  Runners : 

To  be  licensed  _ _ - 249 

Keepers  of  hotels  may  have  license  revoked  249 

To  procure  license;  badge  - - 250 

Not  to  use  deceit,  etc.  - - - 251 

Fees  _ . _ . 251 

Not  to  make  disturbance,  etc.  - - 251 

May  be  arrested  ; further  powers  - 251 

Penalty  - - - - 2^2 

Pounds  and  Pound  Keeper: 

Power  to  establish  . - . 3() 

Bridewell  keeper  to  be  pound  keeper  - 134 

Pound  keeper  to  keep  a register  - 134 

Duty;  unlicdiised  dogs  - - - 171 

l^owder  (See  Gunpowder.) 


358 


INDEX. 


Px\DE. 

Procedure : 

For  iiicorporating  - - - 1 

For  towns  to  become  cities  - --  - 2 

For  organizing  a city  - - 3 

For  electing  officers  after  organizing  - 4 

For  removal  of  officers  - ^ S 

Conducting  elections  --  - 18 

Special  elections  - - --  19 

Suits  for  violating*  ordinance  - - 33 

Assessment  and  collection  of  taxes  --  52 

Compensation  for  property  condemned  - 5G 

Making  special  assessment  - G1 

Special  assessment,  how  collected  - 69 

Returning  delinquent  assessment  - - 69 

Lettkfg  contracts  - -*  ^ 74 

Collection  of  assessment  by  Suit  --  ^ 75 

To  recover  fines  and  penalties  --  8l 

Suits  for  violating  ordinances  - - ‘ 96 

W.hen  owner  neglects  to  construct  sidewalk  101 

Annexing  and  excluding  territory  --  111 

Process : 

Suits  for  violating  city  ordinances  - 33 

Summons  first ; warrant  may  issue  - 33 

Constable  or  sheriff*  may  serve  - 34 

Summons  in  condemnation  suit  - 56 

Summons  and  warrant  for  violating  ordinances  96 

Prostitutes  : 

Power  to  punish  --  - 29' 

Penalty  for  visiting  houses  of  - - 213 

Penalty  for  renting  houses Ao  --  - 214 


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359 


PAGE. 

Publication : 

Of  ordinances  in  book,  etc.  - - 32 

Of  ordinances  in  newspapers,  etc.  - 32,  30G 

Public  Library  (See  Library.) 

Pub  ic  Property: 

A"ote  required  to  sell  - - - 13 

Council  may  control  - - 20 

Penalty  for  injuring  _ _ _ 224 

R 

Pailroads : 

Power  to  change  location,  grade,  etc.  - 23 

Liable  for  damages  to  domestic  animals  - 23 

Flagmen  to  be  kept  by  - - 23 

To  conform  to  grade  of  streets ; open  ditches  23 

City  may  construct  streets  and  sewers  through 

lands  - - - - 31 

Power  to  lay  track  in  streets;  petition,  etc.  31 

Duty  of  Chicago,  Pock  Island  & Pacific  P.  R.  Co.  253 

Duty  of  Chicago,  Alton  & St,  Louis  P.  P.  Co.  254 

Duty  of  Michigan  Central  P.  P.  Co.  - 254 

Duty  of  flagmen  _ _ _ 254 

Penalty  for  violation  - - *-  255 

Speed  of  locomotives  _ _ _ 255 

Stopping  or  remaining  on  streets  - 255 

AVhistling  _ _ _ _ 255 

Opening  of  cylinder  cocks  - - 256 

Penalty  for  violation  _ _ _ 256 

Penalty  for  getting  on  cars  in  motion  - 256 


360 


INDEX. 


Railroads,  (Cont.)  ^ page 

Unlawful  for  C..  R.  T,  & P.  R.  R,  Co.,  etc.  256 

Penalty  for  violation  - - 257 

Repealing  sec.  3,  chap.  36,  revised  ordinances  257 


Procedure  for  erection  of  gates,  etc. 

- 

257 

Railroad  Co.  to  erect  and  maintain  gates; 

penalty  253 

To  be  erected  and  maintained  at  sole  cost 

of 

railroad 

- 

253 

Records : 

Canvass  of  election  returns  to  be  entered 

on 

2 

City  clerk  to  keep ; how  proved 

- 

39' 

Of  ordinances 

- 

39 

Of  oil  inspector  - 

- 

92 

Of  vote  for  vacation  of  street 

- 

122 

Rendering  : 

Power  to  regulate  - - . 

- 

30 

When  nuisance;  penalty  - 

- 

227 

Reports : 

Prom  mayor  on  removal  of  officers 

- 

3 

Of  committee,  deferred  on  call  of  two  aldermen 

13 

Of  fees  received  by  officers 

- 

41 

Monthly  report  of  city  treasurer 

44, 

156 

Annual  report  of  city  treasurer 

- 

45 

Of  city  clerk  _ - - 

45, 

152 

Of  city  collector 

- 

46,  155 

Of  directors  public  library 

- 

88 

Of  school  inspectors 

- 

127, 

270 

Of  bride  well  keeper 

- 

144 

Of  city  attorney 

- 

149 

Of  fire  marshal  - 

- 

178 

Of  oil  inspector 

- 

235 

Of  police  magistrate 

- 

248- 

INDEX. 


361 


Reports,  (Cont.)  page 

Of  superintendent  of  streets  - - 286 

Of  sealer  ot  weights  and  measures  - - 304 

Requisitions : 

For  supplies  to  be  made  to  council  - - 287 

Road  and  Bridges : 

Tax  amount  to  be  paid  city  - - 97 

Rules  and  order  of  business  - - 162 

Runners  (See  Porters  and  Runners.) 


S 

Salaries  (See  Compensation.) 

Saloons  (See  Intoxicating  Liquors.) 

Scavengers : 

To  be  licensed  - - - 259 

Penalty;  permits,  how  granted  - > 259 

License;  bond;  cost  - - 260 

Permits  to  be  obtained  from  board  of  health  260 

Make  return  to  board  of  health  - 260 

Work  to  be  done  in  an  inoffensive  manner  - 260 

Contents  of  vaults  to  be  conveyed  beyond  the 

city  - 261 

Wagon  to  be  painted  and  numbered  - 261 

Vaults  not  to  be  cleaned  during  day-time  - 261 

Amounts  allowed  to  be  charged  - 261 

When  health  officer  to  notify  owners  of  privy 

vaults  - - - 262 

In  case  owner  not  found  in  city  - - 262 

Engaging  in  the  business  without  license;  pen- 
alty ...  - 262 


362 


INDEX. 


Scavengers,  (Cont.)  page. 

Board  of  health  to  cause  notices  to  be  left,  etc.  263 
Refusal  after  notice  served  - - 263 

Schools : 

City  divided  into  two  districts  - - 126 

Inspectors,  election  of  - - 126 

School  property  vested  in  the  city  • 126 

Powers  of  council  relative  to  schools  - 126 

Inspectors,  duties  of  - - - 127 

Additions  to  city  for  school  purposes  - 127-8 

City  to  levy  tax  - - - 128-9 

Separate  ballot  boxes  to  be  provided  - 128 

Additions,  etc.  - - . - 129-30 

Division  of  city  into  districts  - - 264 

District  No.  1 ; extent  of  - - - 264 

District  No.  2;  extent  of  - - 264 

Schools  to  be  maintained  - - - 265 

Children  under  5 and  over  21  - - 265 

How  maintained;  teachers  paid  - - 265 

Teachers  to  keep  schedules  - - 266 

Board  of  school  inspectors;  establish  rules  - 266 

Meeting  of  inspectors ; proviso  - 266 

School  inspectors  to  have  control  of  schools  - 267 

Inspectors  to  adopt  a system  of  schools  268 

Board  to  fix  compensation  of  teachers;  subject  to  268 
To  have  well-bound  books ; keep  record  268 

To  report  to  city  council  - - 268-69 

Duty  of  teachers  to  hold  institute  - 269 

Claims  audited  by  board  and  filed  with  city  clerk  269 
Board  to  report  to  state  superintendent  - 270 

When  board  to  present  requisition  to  the  coun- 
cil . - - 270,  288 


INDEX. 


363 


PAGE 

Tuition  fees  to  be  reported  and  paid  to  treasurer  270 
Seal  (See  Corporate  Seal.) 

Sealer  Weights  and  Measures  (See  AYeig'hts  and  Measures.) 
Sewers  and  Drains: 

PoAver  to  construct  - - - 24 

Power  to  regulate,  etc.  - - 27 

PoAver  to  compel  cleaning  of  - - 30 

Power  to  construct  through  railroad  lands  ' 31 

Contiguous  toAvns  may  contract  for,  etc.  - 104 

How  contract  for,  made  by  contiguous  towns  105 

PoAver  to  levy  and  collect  tax  for  - - 105 

Obstructions  in  slough  drain  - - 217 

M^'hen  a nuisance  _ . - 226 

Obstructing  passage  of  Avater  - - 280 

Shooting  Galleries: 

License  required  - - - 272 

Rate  of  license  - - - - 273 

Not  to  authorize  shooting  out  of  door  - 273 

ShoAvs  and  Exhibitions: 

Managers  of  theatres,  circuses,  etc.,  to  obtain 

licenses  - - - 271 

Rate  of  license  - - . - 271 

License  for  opera  house,  etc.  - - 271 

License  to  specify  the  object  - - 272 

Penalty  for  violation  - - 272 

Not  to  apply  to  citizens  of  Joliet  - - 272 

SideAvalks : 

Power  to  lay  out,  establish,  etc»  - - 21 

Power  of  council  over  - - 22 

PoAver  to  regulate  traffic  on  - - 22 

OAvners ‘may  build  - - _ oi 


364 


INDEX. 


Sidewalks,  (Coiit.)  page. 

May  be  built  by  special  assessment,  etc,  - 99 

What  ordinance  for,  may  provide  - 100 

In  case  owner  neglects  to  construct  - 101 

Special  tax ; duty  of  clerk ; report  - 102 

Judgment  and  sale  - - - 103 

V\  hen  constructed  by  owner,  etc.  - 104 

Sidewalks  not  to  be  obstructed ; penalty  ' - 273 

May  place  goods  within  three  feet  of  building  274 
^ot  to  be  obstructed  by  teams  - - 274 

Not  to  drive  over  sidewalks  - - 274 

Awnings,  etc. ; how  put  up  - - 274 

Crosswalks  to  be  kept  free  - - 275 

Mayor  to  cause  obstructions  to  be  removed  275 

Not  allowed  to  erect  railing,  etc.,  with  spikes 

attached  - _ . 275 

Signs : 

Power  to  regulate  - - - 22 

Street  signs;  carrying  away,  etc.  - 217 

Not  to  project  more  than  three  teet  - 274 

Slaughtering : 

Power  to  regulate  - - - 30 

Not  to  be  done  within  city  limits  - 208 

Special  assessments  : 

Funds  to  be  kept  separate  - - 46 

Power  to  make  - - - - 54 

Ordinance  for  improvement  - - 55 

When  property  is  taken  - - - 55 

Petition  for  compensation  for  damages  - 55 

Form  of  petition  - * • - 55 

Summons;  publication;  notice  - 56 

Hearing  on  petition  - - - 56 


INDEX. 


365 


Special  Assessments,  (Cont.)  page. 

How  compensation  ascertained  - 57 

Admitting  other  parties  - - - 57 

Viewing  premises;  ownership  - 57 

Judgment ; new  parties,  etc.  - - 58 

Powers  of  court  . _ - 58 

Ownership  of  property ; deposit  - - 58 

Persons  under  disability  - - 59 

Judgment,  efi'ect,  appeal,  etc.  - - 59 

Order  for  possession  _ _ 

When  improvement  is  made  by  general  tax  60 

Special  taxation  - _ _ 

How  made  - - - - 61 

Ordinance  for ; owners’ rights  - 61 

Estimate  of  cost  - - - 61 

Order  for  proceedings  in  court  - 62 

Petition  to  court  - - - 62 

Appointment  of  commissioners  - 62 

Duty  of  commissioners ; equality  - 63 

Return  of  assessment  roll  - - 63 

Notice  to  owners  and  persons  interested  - 64 

Proof  of  notice  - - - 65 

When  notice  not  in  time  - - 66 

Objections  to;  judgment  - - 66 

Cases  to  have  precedence  - - 66 

Court  may  modify  - . 67 

Judgment  alien;  appeal  - - 67 

Judgment  and  assessment  to  be  certified  to  clerk  67 
Warrant  to  be  issued  by  city  clerk  - - 67 

Form  of  warrant  - - ’ - 68 

Collector’s  notice  - * - -68 

Manner  of  collecting  - - 69 


366 


INDEX. 


Special  Assessments,  (Cont.)  page. 

Return  of  delinquent  - - - 69 

Application  for  jud«-nient  on;  sale  - 70 

Redemption  from  sale  - - -71 

Penalty  when  land  sold,  and  tax  paid  - 71 

Paying  over  compensation  - - 71 

General  revenue  laws  apply  - - 71 

City  may  buy  in  - - - 72 

May  be  annulled;  new  assessment  - 72 

Supplemental  assessments;  rebates  on  - 73 

When  new  may  be  made  - - 73 

Charge  on  property  assessed  - - 73 

Contracts  payable  from  - - 74 

How  contracts  let  and  approved  - " 74 

Lien  of  - - - - 75 

How  collected  by  suit  - - - 75 

Benefits  assessed  in  condemnation  cases  - 76 

Adoption  of  article  concerning  - - 77 

For  sidewalks  * 99 

When  amount  of  may  be  reduced  - - 104 

Committee  on  public  improvements  to  report, 

etc.  ^ - 283-284 

Streets : 

Powers  concerning  - - - 21 

Power  to  regulate  traffic  on  - - 22 

Power  to  name  and  change  names  of  - 22 

Power  to  construct  mill  races  in  - 31 

Power  to  open  through  railroad  lauds  - 31 

Railroad  tracks  on  - - - 31 

Labor  on  - - - 34 

Council  may  require  labor;  commutation  83 

Vacation  of;  vote  - - - 121 


INDF.X. 


367 


Streets,  (Cont.)  page. 

Rights  of  owners  when  street  vacated  - 122 

City  surveyor  to  give  grade,  etc,  - - 159 

City  surveyor  to  survey  new  streets  - 161 

Streets  not  to  be  encumbered  - - 276 

Superintendent  of  streets  to  remove  obstructions  277 
Articles,  etc.,  found  in  the  streets  may  be  sold  277 

Proceeds  of  sale;  how  disposed  - 277 

Duties  of  superintendent  of  streets  - - 277 

Wagons,  etc.,  not  allowed  to  stand  in  streets  278 
Buildings,  etc.,  not  to  be  moved  through  streets, 

etc.  - - - . 278 

Time  of  removal  to  be  specified  - - 278 

Penalty  of  > - - - 278 

Buildings,  etc.,  not  to  be  placed  on  streets  279 

Buildings  to  be  removed  from  streets  - 279 

Penalty  for  refusing  to  remove  obstruction  279 

When  obstructed;  teams;  how  removed  - 279 

Dirt  and  rubbish  not  to  be  placed  in  streets  280 

Water  not  to  be  obstructed  - - 280 

Stone,  gravel  and  sand  not  to  be  removed  from  280 
May  be  sold ; material  to  be  valued  - 280 

Penalty  for  removing  material  - - 281 

Excavations  to  be  protected,  etc.  - 281 

Consent  of  mayor  and  superintendent  of  streets 

necessary  for  setting  of  poles  - 282 

Power  V)f  magistrates  _ _ . 282 

Committee  on  public  improvements  - 282 

Duty  of  committee  , - - - 282 

Petitions  when  referred  to  committee  - 283 

Work  not  to  be  accepted  until  satisfactory  to 

committee  - 283 


368 


INDEX. 


Streets,  (Cont.)  page. 

No  special  improvement  to  be  discontinued 

until  costs  paid  - - - 284 

Committee  to  report  on  all  new  improvements  284 
Duty  of  city  attorney  reg'arding  special  im- 
provements - 284 

Wood  and  hay  market  designated  - 305 

Street  Sprinklers:  • 

License  and  bond  required  - - 295 

Superintendent  of  Streets; 

Appointment  of  - - - 28^ 

Duties  of  - - - - 285 

Duties  on  repairs  . - - 285 

Council  to  give  permission  for  expenditures  on 

streets  - - - - 286 

Supplies  and  Claims ; 

Time  contracts;  duration,  etc.  - 287 

Requisition;  when  made  - - - 287 

Who  to  purchase;  order  and  bill  - 287 

Claims  for  goods  not  ordered  - - 287 

Bill,  what  to  contain;  certificate  - 288 

Printed  blanks,  when  not  to  be  purchased  - 288 

All  claims  to  be  filed  five  days  before  council 

meeting  - - - - 288 

School  board  to  file  statement  of  claims  audited  288 
Surplus : 

Of  special  assessment  to  be  refunded  - 73 

Of  tax  to  be  equally  divided  - --  108 

Surveyor  (See  City  Surveyor.) 


INDEX. 


3G9 


T 

PAGE 

Target  Shooting  (See  Shooting  Gallery.) 

Taxes  : 

Power  to  levy  and  collect  - - 20 

For  judgments  and  loans  - - 42-43 

Ordinance  levying;  limitation  - 52-53 

How  collected  _ _ _ 53 

Time  of  paying  over  _ _ 53 

When  levied  for  particular  purpose  - 54 

To  be  uniform  _ _ ^ 54 

Tax-payer  may  enforce  rights  in  name  of  city  79 

How  may  be  assessed  and  collected  - 108 

Surplus  fund ; proportion  of,  etc.  - - 108 

Rebate  when  property  destroyed  - 109 

When  may  be  reduced  or  released  - - 110 

Power  to  levy  and  collect  for  sewerage,  water 

and  light  _ _ - - 105 

Drawing  warrants  in  anticipation  of  - 113 

For  water  works  - - 115-117 

For  water  supplied  by  incorporated  company  120 
For  support  of  schools  - - 128-129 

Tax  levy  warrants  - - - 168 

Dog  tax  - - - - 171 

School  tax  _ _ _ 265 

Telegraph ; 

Power  to  regulate  poles  - - 22 

Poles  to  be  placed  under  direction  of  mayor 

and  street  superintendent  - 282 


370 


INDEX. 


» PAGE. 

theatres  (See  Shows  and  Exhibitions.) 

Treasurer  (See  City  Treasurer.) 

Trees  : 

Not  to  obstruct  lamps  - - 289 

Penalty  _ _ _ - 289 

Not  to  injure  - - - 289 

How  trimmed,  penalty  _ - - 289 

Trucks  (See  Vehicles  ) 

V 

V^acancy : 

In  office  of  mayor  . _ - 7-8 

In  office  of  alderman  _ - 11 

Office  of  alderman  under  minority  plan  - 17 

* How  filled  _ _ - 36 

Vacations  ; 

Power  to  vacate  streets,  etc.  - - 21 

Vote  required  _ _ - 121 

Damages,  rights  of  owners,  etc.  - - 122 

Vaccination  : 

Board  of  health  may  require  - - 194 

Duty  to  cause,  etc.  _ _ - 196 

V agrants : 

Power  to  punish  _ _ - 29 

What  persons  deemed  vagrants  - - 296 

Duty  of  officers  to  arrest  vagrants  - 297 

Officers  to  search  vagrants  - - 298 

Vehicles: 

Power  to  regulate  speed  of  - - 22 

Power  to  license  - _ - 25 


INDEX. 


371 


Vehicles,  (Cont.)  page. 

Persons  transporting'  for  hire  to  have  license  290 

Hackney  carriages  defined  - - 290 

How  license  granted  - - - 291 

Vehicles  to  be  numbered  - - 291 

Owners  of  vehicles  responsible  for  goods  - 292 

Penalty  for  refusing  to  carry  persons,  etc.  292 

Penalty  for  using  indecent  or  profane  language, 

etc.  _ _ _ _ 292 

Fee  allowed  to  teamsters,  draymen,  etc.  - 293 

Fee  allowed  hackmen,  etc.  - - 293 

Drayman,  etc.,  to  load  and  unload  goods  - 294 

Penalty  for  taking  a larger  fee  than  allowed  294 

Not  to  apply  to  merchants  or  laboring  teamsters  294 
Penalty  without  license  - - 294 

Sprinklers  to  be  licensed  - - 295 

Bond  required;  rate,  etc.  - - 295 

Persons  governed  by  ordinances  of  city  - 295 

Vote  of  Council : 

Mayor  has  casting  vote  - - - 8 

Two-thirds  restore  officer  - - 8 

Majority  to  pass  ordinances  - - 13 

Two-thirds  to  sell  property  - - 13 

Two-thirds  to  pass  over  veto  - - 14 

Two-thirds  create  new  offices  and  discontinue  35 
Two-thirds  order  improvements  after  appro- 
priations are  made  - - 43 

Every  member  to  vote  unless  excused,  etc.  • 163 

Ayes  and  noes  to  be  taken  when  called  for  164 


372 


INDEX. 


w 

PAGE. 


Wards  : 

Council  may  divide  city  into 
Division  of  city  into  seven  wards 


15 

299 


Warrants: 

For  violating  ordinance 

Officers  to  be  commissioned  by  - , 

May  be  served  by  policeman 
Treasurer  to  deposit,  etc. 

Treasurer  keep  register  of 
Form  of  city  warrants 
Comptroller  to  have  charge  of  ~ 

For  collection  of  special  assessment 
Manner  of  issuing  upon  treasurer 
May  be  issued  in  anticipation  ot  taxes 
How  drawn  - 

Clerk  not  to  draw  warrants  till  four  days 
When  clerk  to  cancel  warrants  and  issue  new 
Tax  levy  warrants  - - - 

How  paid  _ - . - 

When  authorized  to  borrow  money  on  tax  war- 
rants - - - 


33,  96 
37 
40 
44 
44 
46 
48 
68 
113 
113 
167 
167 

167 

168 
168 

168 


\^^‘lter  and  Water  Works: 

Power  to  acquire  property  for  - - 77 

City  council  may  supply  - - - 77 

Power  to  collect  water  rates  - - 78 

4 ax  for  a lien;  general  tax  - - 78 

Power  to  levy  and  collect  tax  for  - 106 


INDEX. 


378 


Water  and  Water  Works,  (Cont.)  page 

Power  to  supply  water  - _ - 114 

Borrow  money ; tax  - - - 115 

May  acquire  property  for  Tvorks,  etc.  - 115 

Rules;  tax;  assessment;  lien  - - 116 

Special  assessment  - - - 116 

Separate  taxes  - - - 117 

When  act  not  apply  - • - 117 

When  bonds  may  be  issued  for  - 118 

Payment  ot  bonds  and  interest  - - 119 

Cities  may  contract  with  companies  for  - 119 

Powers  to  increase  and  better  water  supply  120 

Layinof  pipes;  guard  excavations,  etc,  - 281 

Weights  and  Measures: 

Regulator  of  - - - 301 

Council  to  appoint  sealer  - - - 301 

Duties  of;  penalty  - . _ _ gQl 

Fees  of  sealer  - - - _ - 302 

To  inspect  on  request;  complaint,  etc.  - 303 

Not  to  use  weights,  etc.,  unsealed;  penalty  303 

Sealer  to  make  register ; report  - . 304 

Whemto  deliver  weights,  etc.,  to  city  clerk  304 

A^4listling  : 

Of  locomotive  engines,  prohibited  - 255 

Wood  and  Hay; 

Inspector  to  be  appointed  - - 304 

Duties  of;  fees  of  . . _ ;i04 

All  wood  to  be  well  packed ; penalty  - 305 

All  wood  to  be  inspected ; penalty  - - 305 

Penalty 

Inspector  to  have  place  of  business  - 305 

Wood  and  hay  stands;  where  located  - 305 


374 


INDEX. 


Y 

PAGE* 

Yeas  and  Nays : 

To  be  taken  on  removal  of  officers  ’ 8 

May  be  demanded  by  any  alderman  13,  1(>4 

To  be  taken  on  passage  of  ordinances,  etc.  13 

To  be  taken  on  passing  ordinance  over  veto  - 14 

To  be  taken  on  vacating  streets  - 121 


